antelope vs Hippotragus niger

Hippotragus niger vs antelope

antelope and Hippotragus niger both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
antelope	Yes	No	No	No
Hippotragus niger	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Hippotragus niger is a hyponym of antelope; that is, Hippotragus niger 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
Hippotragus niger: large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns

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, 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, sable antelope, saiga, Saiga tatarica, Raphicerus campestris, steenbok, steinbok, eland, waterbuck, Adenota vardoni, puku, oryx, pasang.

antelope (noun)	Hippotragus niger (noun)
graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks	large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns

Difference between antelope and Hippotragus niger

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