antelope vs Aepyceros melampus

Aepyceros melampus vs antelope

antelope and Aepyceros melampus both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
antelope	Yes	No	No	No
Aepyceros melampus	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Aepyceros melampus is a hyponym of antelope; that is, Aepyceros melampus is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than antelope:

antelope: graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks
Aepyceros melampus: African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps

Other hyponyms of antelope include Antilope cervicapra, black buck, blackbuck, gerenuk, Litocranius walleri, addax, Addax nasomaculatus, gnu, wildebeest, dik-dik, hartebeest, Damaliscus lunatus, sassaby, topi, impala, gazelle, bongo, Boocercus eurycerus, Tragelaphus eurycerus, koodoo, koudou, kudu, harnessed antelope, mountain nyala, Tragelaphus buxtoni, blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghai, nylghau, Hippotragus niger, sable antelope, saiga, Saiga tatarica, Raphicerus campestris, steenbok, steinbok, eland, waterbuck, Adenota vardoni, puku, oryx, pasang.

antelope (noun)	Aepyceros melampus (noun)
graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks	African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps

Difference between antelope and Aepyceros melampus

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.