antelope vs eland

eland vs antelope

antelope and eland both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
antelope	Yes	No	No	No
eland	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, eland is a hyponym of antelope; that is, eland 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
eland: either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes

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

antelope (noun)	eland (noun)
graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks	either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes

Difference between antelope and eland

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