sable antelope

A large African antelope (Hippotragus niger) having a thick mane, long horns, and a coat that is brown in females and black in males, with white underparts.

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sable antelope

(Animals) a large black E African antelope, Hippotragus niger, with long backward-curving horns

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sa′ble an`telope

a large African antelope, Hippotragus niger, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat.

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sable antelope - large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns

Hippotragus niger

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

genus Hippotragus, Hippotragus - sable antelopes

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To me the sable antelope is worthy of its royal status, and personally I find a jet-black bull the most striking of all the antelope on earth.

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