gazelle

ga·zelle (g

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Any of various small, swift antelopes of the genus Gazella and related genera of Africa and Asia, characteristically having a slender neck and annulate horns.

[French, from Old French, from Arabic azl.]

gazelle [gəˈzɛl]

n pl -zelles, -zelle

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small graceful usually fawn-coloured antelope of the genera Gazella and Procapra, of Africa and Asia, such as G. thomsoni (Thomson's gazelle)

[from Old French, from Arabic ghazāl]

gazelle-like adj

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Noun

gazelle - small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes

antelope - graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks

Gazella, genus Gazella - typical gazelles

Gazella thomsoni, Thomson's gazelle - East African gazelle; the smallest gazelle

Gazella subgutturosa - a kind of gazelle

Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbok, springbuck - a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air

Translations

gazelle [gəˈzel] N (gazelles or gazelle (pl)) → gacela f

gazelle [gəˈzɛl] n → gazelle f

gazelle

n → Gazelle f

gazelle [gəˈzɛl] n → gazzella

gazelle

n gazelle [gəˈzel]

a type of small antelope. springbok غَزال газела gazela gazelle die Gazelle γαζέλα gacela gasell غزال gaselli gazelle צְבִי मृग gazela gazella kijang gasella gazzella ガゼル 가젤(작은 영양의 일종) gazelė gazele gazel gazel gaselle gazela gazela gazelă газель gazela gazela gazela gasell ละมั่ง ceylan 小羚羊 газель سینگ دار افریقی ہرنوں میں سے کوئی linh dương gazen 小羚羊

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Adenota vardoni Ahu Algazel Antidorcas euchore Antidorcas marsupialis bubal Corinne Gazel Gazella Gazella subgutturosa Gazella thomsoni gazelle hound genus Gazella gerenuk Goa Grant's gazelle hound dog Jairou Korin	He had just had a quarrel with his partner on the sloop Gazelle, and knives had been drawn, and blows struck, and he was bent on maddening the fever of the memory with more whisky. John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat--a sealer's boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No. The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context All the attitudes and movements of this beautiful animal are graceful and picturesque; and it is altogether as fit a subject for the fanciful uses of the poet as the oft-sung gazelle of the East. Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context	Gaylussacia frondosa Gaylussite gayly Gayne gayness Gayomart Gaysome Gaytre gaywings Gaza Gaza Strip gazania Gazania rigens Gazankulu gazar gaze gaze about or around gazebo Gazeebo Gazeful gazehound Gazel Gazella Gazella subgutturosa Gazella thomsoni gazelle gazelle hound Gazement Gazer Gazet gazette gazetted officer gazetteer Gaziantep gazillion Gazingstock Gazogene Gazon gazpacho gazump gazunder GB GBA Gbe GBG GBH Gbit GBJ GBM GBS GBU-28	Gaze Position Error Field gaze test Gaze-Evoked Orbicularis Oculi Myokymia gazebo gazebo gazeboes gazeboes gazebos gazebos gazed gazed gazed gazed Gazeebo Gazeebo Gazeful gazehound gazehound Gazehounds in Texas Gazel Gazel Gazella Gazella Gazella Gazella dorcas Gazella granti Gazella subgutturosa Gazella subgutturosa Gazella thomsoni Gazella thomsonii gazelle Gazelle Elementary School Gazelle Halbinsel gazelle hound gazelle hound gazelle hound Gazelle Peninsula Gazelles Gazelles Gazelles Gazement Gazenko, Oleg Gazenko, Oleg Georgievich gazer gazer gazer gazer gazer Gazer (comics) Gazer (comics) gazers gazers gazers gazes gazes gazes gazes gazes Gazet Gazeteer Gazeteer

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Adenota vardoni
Ahu
Algazel
Antidorcas euchore
Antidorcas marsupialis
bubal
Corinne
Gazel
Gazella
Gazella subgutturosa
Gazella thomsoni
gazelle hound
genus Gazella
gerenuk
Goa
Grant's gazelle
hound dog
Jairou
Korin

He had just had a quarrel with his partner on the sloop Gazelle, and knives had been drawn, and blows struck, and he was bent on maddening the fever of the memory with more whisky.

John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context

High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat--a sealer's boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No.

The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context

All the attitudes and movements of this beautiful animal are graceful and picturesque; and it is altogether as fit a subject for the fanciful uses of the poet as the oft-sung gazelle of the East.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

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