addax

[ ad-aks ]

/ ˈæd æks /

noun

a large, pale-colored antelope, Addax nasomaculatus, of North Africa, with loosely spiraled horns.

Origin of addax

From Latin, dating back to 1685–95, presumably < some language of ancient North Africa

Words nearby addax

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Example sentences from the Web for addax

Addax, ad′aks, n. a species of large antelope found in Africa, with long twisted horns.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) |Various
In this desert region is found the addax, the rarest of Sudan antelopes.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 |Various
Unlike the addax, it is gregarious in its habits, and lives in large herds.

The Young Yagers |Mayne Reid
The wide-spread hoofs of the addax antelope enable it to travel over sand at a great pace.

In the Tail of the Peacock |Isabel Savory

That the strepsiceros of Pliny, or the addax of the Africans, is the antelope.

Buffon's Natural History. Volume VIII (of 10) |Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

British Dictionary definitions for addax

addax

/ (ˈædæks) /

noun

a large light-coloured antelope, Addax nasomaculatus, having ribbed loosely spiralled horns and inhabiting desert regions in N Africa: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla

Word Origin for addax

C17: Latin, from an unidentified ancient N African language

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