Definition of Hippotragus niger

1. Noun. Large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns.

Exact synonyms: Sable Antelope
Generic synonyms: Antelope
Group relationships: Genus Hippotragus, Hippotragus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippotragus Niger

Hippocrepis
Hippocrepis comosa
Hippodamia
Hippodamia convergens
Hippoglossoides
Hippoglossoides platessoides
Hippoglossus
Hippoglossus hippoglossus
Hippoglossus stenolepsis
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius
Hipposideridae
Hipposideros
Hippotragus
Hippotragus niger
Hipsurus
Hipsurus caryi
Hira
Hirado
Hiragana
Hirakata
Hiram
Hiram King Williams
Hiram Ulysses Grant
Hiram Williams
Hiramic
Hirano bodies
Hiratsuka
Hiren

Literary usage of Hippotragus niger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"... is so much broken that its form and length cannot be clearly made out; it must have been much shorter than in an adult, individual of hippotragus niger. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Closely related to this buck is the sable antelope (hippotragus niger) from the eastern Transvaal and ..."

3. British Central Africa: An Attempt to Give Some Account of a Portion of the by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1898)
"hippotragus niger; the Sable Antelope. Common in Nyasaland, and said to be present in German and Portuguese East Africa. Order, EDENTATA. Sub-order, Manes. ..."

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