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Definition of Damaliscus
1. Noun. African antelopes: sassabies.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Damaliscus Lunatus, Sassaby, Topi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damaliscus
Literary usage of Damaliscus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"CHAPTER XIII WILDEBEEST, damaliscus, AND HARTEBEEST SUBFAMILY ... antelopes or
sables through the genus damaliscus and on the other to the African buffalo ..."
2. Big Game Shooting on the Equator by Francis Arthur Dickinson (1908)
"It is sometimes called "topi hartebeest," but as its Latin name is " damaliscus"
as against "Bubalis" of the true hartebeest, this is a misnomer. ..."
3. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"On the other hand, in damaliscus the face is shorter and the horns are more simply
curved. Species of Bubalis range throughout Africa and Southern Arabia, ..."
4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1905)
"... appeared to be no Eland, no Zebras, and no damaliscus. ... damaliscus were
very numerous. The number in this part may be estimated nt 1000 individual. ..."
5. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"... found in West Africa outside the forest belt, apart from the one or more
species of damaliscus. The beautiful damaliscus ..."
6. British Central Africa: An Attempt to Give Some Account of a Portion of the by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1898)
"... and the damaliscus genus of antelopes, were it not that according to native
report the giraffe is found in the southern part of the Senga country along ..."
7. Records of Big Game: With Their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions by Rowland Ward (1899)
"-2li Julius Jeppe. Paris Museum. Dr. P. Rendall, British Museum. Late Earl of
Derby, British Museum. Do. Dublin Museum. TIANG (damaliscus ..."
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