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Hippotragus Bakeri
Maharif Ma`ha*rif", n. (Zo["o]l.) An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.
Hippotragus equinus
Roan Roan, a. [F. rouan; cf. Sp. roano, ruano, It. rovano, roano.] 1. Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse. Give my roan a drench. --Shak. 2. Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding. Roan antelope (Zo["o]l.), a very large South African antelope (Hippotragus equinus). It has long sharp horns and a stiff bright brown mane. Called also mahnya, equine antelope, and bastard gemsbok.
Hippotragus or Oryx nasomaculatus
Addax Ad"dax, n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus). Note: 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.

Meaning of Hippotragus from wikipedia

- "he-goat". Fossil species †Hippotragus gigas †Hippotragus cookei? - may be a nomen dubium Grubb, Peter (2001). "Case 3178. Hippotragus Sundevall, 1845 (Mammalia...
- The sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) is a large antelope which inhabits wooded savanna in East and Southern Africa, from the south of Kenya to South...
- The roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) is a large savanna-dwelling antelope found in western, central, and southern Africa. Named for its roan colour...
- The bluebuck (Afrikaans: bloubok /ˈblaʊbɒk/) or blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) is an extinct species of antelope that lived in South Africa until...
- The giant sable antelope or royal sable antelope (Hippotragus niger variani), also known in Portuguese as the palanca-negra-gigante, is a large, rare...
- Hippotragus gigas is an extinct species of antelope known from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. Hippotragus gigas was discovered by Louis Leakey in 1965...
- Hippotragus Roan antelope (H. equinus) Sable antelope (H. niger) Oryx East African oryx (O. beisa) Scimitar oryx (O. dammah) Gemsbok (O. gazella) Arabian...
- Hippotragus Roan antelope (H. equinus) Sable antelope (H. niger) Oryx East African oryx (O. beisa) Scimitar oryx (O. dammah) Gemsbok (O. gazella) Arabian...
- Thompson, K. V. "Flehmen and birth synchrony among female sable antelope, Hippotragus-niger". 1995. Animal Behavior 50: 475–84. Wolff, J. O. "Breeding strategies...
- 63,000 years ago. Arthur Tindell Hopwood described Damaliscus niro as Hippotragus niro in 1936 from a horn core collected by L.S.B. Leakey from a site...