n., pl., antelope, or -lopes.
- Any of various swift-running ruminant mammals of the family Bovidae, native to Africa and Asia and having long horns and a slender build.
- An animal, such as the pronghorn, that resembles a true antelope.
- Leather made from the hide of the African and Asian ruminant.
[Middle English, heraldic beast, probably from Old French antelop, savage beast with sawlike horns, from Medieval Latin anthalopus, from Late Greek antholops.]
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