antelope vs waterbuck

waterbuck vs antelope

antelope and waterbuck both are nouns.

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

As nouns, waterbuck is a hyponym of antelope; that is, waterbuck 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
waterbuck: any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers

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, eland, Adenota vardoni, puku, oryx, pasang.

antelope (noun)	waterbuck (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 large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers

Difference between antelope and waterbuck

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