antelope vs wildebeest

wildebeest vs antelope

antelope and wildebeest both are nouns.

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

As nouns, wildebeest is a hyponym of antelope; that is, wildebeest 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
wildebeest: large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail

Other hyponyms of antelope include Antilope cervicapra, black buck, blackbuck, gerenuk, Litocranius walleri, addax, Addax nasomaculatus, gnu, 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, waterbuck, Adenota vardoni, puku, oryx, pasang.

antelope (noun)	wildebeest (noun)
graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks	large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail

Difference between antelope and wildebeest

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