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Definition of Aepyceros
1. Noun. African antelopes: impalas.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Aepyceros Melampus, Impala
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aepyceros
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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