antelope vs Damaliscus lunatus

Damaliscus lunatus vs antelope

antelope and Damaliscus lunatus both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
antelope	Yes	No	No	No
Damaliscus lunatus	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Damaliscus lunatus is a hyponym of antelope; that is, Damaliscus lunatus 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
Damaliscus lunatus: a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal

Other hyponyms of antelope include Antilope cervicapra, black buck, blackbuck, gerenuk, Litocranius walleri, addax, Addax nasomaculatus, gnu, wildebeest, dik-dik, hartebeest, sassaby, topi, Aepyceros melampus, 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)	Damaliscus lunatus (noun)
graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks	a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal

Difference between antelope and Damaliscus lunatus

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