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Definition of Nylghai
1. Noun. Large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns.
Generic synonyms: Antelope
Group relationships: Boselaphus, Genus Boselaphus
Definition of Nylghai
1. nilgai [n -S] - See also: nilgai
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nylghai
Literary usage of Nylghai
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Big Game Shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"The natives often enclose these patches of cane with grass fences nearly six feet
high, but nylghai will always jump them. As a rule, natives object more or ..."
2. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1895)
"A short, sharp walk brings us to a paddock, wherein is enclosed a family of
nylghai, or Indian blue cow, a Manchurian deer, some Japanese deer, ..."
3. To and Fro by Henry Mather Warren (1908)
"A herd of deer breaks cover, the rifle« crack, and two are bowled over; a pair
of nylghai fly paM, ;unl one drops; more deer, a huge boar, ..."
4. Gun, Rifle, and Hound in East and West by Snaffle (1894)
"Sahib, sahib, byle hai" (sir, sir, there are cattle— ie, nylghai—there). ...
A couple of minutes after we had taken post a herd of five nylghai broke from ..."
5. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1917)
"... Stellar sea lion; great ant-eater; American bison; Indian sambar deer; anoa;
sing sing water-buck; Suleiman markhor; nylghai; sloth bear; ..."
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