sable antelope

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Sable antelope in Chobe National Park, Botswana
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Etymology

probably from its sable black coloring

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Noun

sable antelope (plural sable antelopes)

  1. A large antelope, of species Hippotragus niger, of eastern and southern Africa.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.

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