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Webster 1913 Edition
Addax
Ad′dax
,Noun.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
One of the largest African antelopes (
Hippotragusnasomaculatus
or Oryx nasomaculatus
). ☞ It is now believed to be the
Strepsiceros
(twisted horn) of the ancients. By some it is thought to be the pygarg of the Bible. Definition 2025
Addax
Addax
See also: addax
Translingual
Proper noun
Addax m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Bovidae – the single species Addax nasomaculatus (addax).
Hypernyms
- (genus): Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria - infraclass; magnorder - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Cetartiodactyla - clade; Artiodactyla - order; Bovidae - family; Hippotraginae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Addax nasomaculatus (species)
addax
addax
See also: Addax
English
Noun
addax (plural addaxes or addax)
- A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus), with long horns, that lives in the desert. [from 17th c.]
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 53:
- In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 53:
Translations
Addax nasomaculatus