Hippotragus

noun

Hip·​pot·​ra·​gus

-rə̇gəs

: a genus of large antelopes with long annulated backwardly curved horns that includes the sable and roan antelopes and the extinct blaubok

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from hipp- + Greek tragos he-goat

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