Definition of Aepyceros

1. Noun. African antelopes: impalas.

Exact synonyms: Genus Aepyceros
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Aepyceros Melampus, Impala

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aepyceros

Aelius Donatus
Aelurostrongylus
Aeneas
Aeneas Silvius
Aeneid
Aengus
Aeolia
Aeolian
Aeolian Islands
Aeolian mode
Aeolic
Aeolis
Aeolus
Aeonium
Aeonium haworthii
Aepyceros
Aepyceros melampus
Aepyornidae
Aepyorniformes
Aequian
Aer
Aerobacter
Aerobacter aerogenes
Aerococcus
Aeroflot
Aeromonas hydrophilia lipase-acyltransferase
Aertel
Aertex
Aeschylean
Aeschylus

Literary usage of Aepyceros

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1885)
"128. Presented by Dr. H. Falconer. 40886. The nearly complete cranium of a male of the aepyceros form, showing half of the right horn-core, ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The female, which is hornless, is lighter brown. The horns are long, spirally twisted, and closely ringed. aepyceros, with two species, is African. ..."

3. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"As soon as we had crossed the rise on which the camp is built we saw a group of 15 impalas (aepyceros melampus). They had spotted us and moved slowly uphill ..."

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