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Definition of Taurotragus
1. Noun. African antelopes: elands.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Eland, Common Eland, Taurotragus Oryx, Giant Eland, Taurotragus Derbianus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taurotragus
Literary usage of Taurotragus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cross River Natives: Being Some Notes on the Primitive Pagans of Obubura by Charles Partridge (1905)
"Elands (Taurotragus). 8. The little Liberian hippopotamus. SCHEDULE II. 1.
The elephant. *. Rhinoceroses. 4. Zebras of species not referred to in Schedule ..."
2. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"Although so widely isolated geographically from the Senegal eland, Taurotragus
derbianus, the degree of difference in coloration or other characters of the ..."
3. Cross River Natives: Being Some Notes on the Primitive Pagans of Obubura by Charles Partridge (1905)
"Elands (Taurotragus). 8. The little Liberian hippopotamus. SCHEDULE II. 1.
The elephant. *. Rhinoceroses. 4. Zebras of species not referred to in Schedule ..."
4. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"Although so widely isolated geographically from the Senegal eland, Taurotragus
derbianus, the degree of difference in coloration or other characters of the ..."