antelope vs dik-dik

dik-dik vs antelope

antelope and dik-dik both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
antelope	Yes	No	No	No
dik-dik	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dik-dik is a hyponym of antelope; that is, dik-dik 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
dik-dik: any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua; the size of a large rabbit

Other hyponyms of antelope include Antilope cervicapra, black buck, blackbuck, gerenuk, Litocranius walleri, addax, Addax nasomaculatus, gnu, wildebeest, 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, Hippotragus niger, sable antelope, saiga, Saiga tatarica, Raphicerus campestris, steenbok, steinbok, eland, waterbuck, Adenota vardoni, puku, oryx, pasang.

antelope (noun)	dik-dik (noun)
graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks	any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua; the size of a large rabbit

Difference between antelope and dik-dik

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