Definition of Genus tragelaphus

1. Noun. African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tragelaphus

genus Tolypeutes
genus Tomistoma
genus Toona
genus Torreya
genus Tortrix
genus Townsendia
genus Toxicodendron
genus Toxostoma
genus Toxotes
genus Trachinotus
genus Trachipterus
genus Trachodon
genus Trachurus
genus Tradescantia
genus Tragelaphus
genus Tragopan
genus Tragopogon
genus Tragulus
genus Trapa
genus Trautvetteria
genus Trema
genus Tremella
genus Treponema
genus Triaenodon
genus Trialeurodes
genus Triatoma
genus Tribolium
genus Tribonema
genus Tribulus

Literary usage of Genus tragelaphus

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

1. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"A sportsman's name for several African antelopes frequenting bushy regions, especially two groups: (1) The genus Tragelaphus, otherwise known as ..."

2. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"The genus was founded by Thomas on the character of the horned female in distinction to the hornless females of the genus Tragelaphus, to which it was ..."

3. British Central Africa: An Attempt to Give Some Account of a Portion of the by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1898)
"... unlike those of the rest of the animals of the genus Tragelaphus, have two turns instead of a turn and ..."

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