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Definition of Alcelaphus
1. Noun. African antelopes: hartebeests.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Hartebeest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alcelaphus
Literary usage of Alcelaphus
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 (1887)
"Among the Artiodactyla the type crania of the Siwalik Antelopes referred in pt.
ii. to Strepsiceros, Hippo- tragus, Cobus, and Alcelaphus, have been figured ..."
2. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"Alcelaphus. Horns on the upper edge of the frontal bone, which forms a much
produced posterior ridge, lyrate, thick at the base, with the end suddenly ..."
3. Through Masăi Land: A Journey of Exploration Among the Snowclad Volcanic by Joseph Thomson (1885)
"... with the magnitude of the subject, and gladly leave it, only too well aware
how inadequate are my best efforts to portray it to the reader. Alcelaphus ..."
4. Catalogue of the Remains of Siwalik Vertebrata Contained in the Geological by Richard Lydekker (1885)
"Collected by Mr. Theobald. B 415. Various horn.cores ; from the Punjab. Collected by
Mr. Theobald. Genus Alcelaphus, Blainville. ' Bull. Soc. Philom. ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"Indeed he has placed the species next each other in the Catalogue of the Society's
Museum. Alcelaphus. A large deep impression before the orbit, ..."
6. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"Hartebeest (Alcelaphus caama), the most difficult almost impossible—of South
African game to run down in fair chase, will often offer a shot by their habit ..."
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