Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A reddish African antelope (Aepyceros melampus) noted for its leaping ability and having ridged, curved horns in the male.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An African antelope of the genus Æpyceros, which has rather long, divergent, lyrate horns. The best-known species is Æ. melampus of South Africa, of a dark-red color, white below, standing about 3 feet high. A small race of this species inhabits Nyassaland. Another species, Æ petersi, with black marking on the face, is found in West Africa, in Angola. Also known as pala.
Wiktionary
- n. An African antelope Aepyceros melampus noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns,
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An antelope (Aepyceros melampus) of Southeastern Africa, the male of which has ringed lyre-shaped horns, which curve first backward, then sideways, then upwards. ALso called
impalla andpallah .
WordNet 3.0
- n. African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps
Etymologies
- From Zulu impala. (Wiktionary)
- Zulu ím-pàlà : ím-, n. pref. + -pàlà, impala. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Though the end of the sequence wasn’t shown, King explained that the gazelle must have endured a slow, agonising death [the adjacent image, showing two cheetahs taking down an impala, is nothing to do with Duma or the attack I've just been discussing: it's from game-reserve. com].”
“Desert rose is also known as the impala lily, desert azalea and sabie star.”
“Just saw it on CNN its crazy,its like asking a lion if they know that the impala is a protected species, it could care less, that whole christmas tittle is as irrelevenat asinsert cliché of choice”
“v = P_NptWQO-F4 my impala was a far cry from a corvette killer, bc. iirc., the impala drive train was the same as yours, but toting nearly twice the mass. regardless, the powerglide was a thing of beauty.”
“Big Game Hunting bear big game hunting big game photos caribou elk gemsbok impala kudu moose sheep”
“There were six, a young sable cow and five impala, spaced in a line 200 yards long.”
“I shoot a jaguar take down there awesome but i like the pse impala takedown better”
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“Reciprocal allogrooming in impala, Aepyceros melampus.”
“The nuisance of parasites—ticks—has led to the emergence of another instance of this mechanism at work, in the form of reciprocal grooming, this time among impala, a kind of antelope found in Africa.”
“The knife curved again, a bloody flash that exposed impala horns jutting from a furry scalp.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘impala’.
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Zulu
words derived from Zulu found
in dictionaries
There is a Scottish boat called
a zulu built by William Campbellbabalas, babbelas, bonsella, bonsela, pasela, cocopan, donga, imbizo, impala, imphee, impi, indaba and 55 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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antelopes
addax
a large light-coloured antelope with curled horns. L. from an African word quoted by Pliny.
antelope
any one of a group of hollow-horned...addax, antelope, antilopine, ariel, blackbuck, blaubok, bluebuck, bloubok, blesbok, blesbuck, bok, bongo and 479 more...
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ifea_need_help's Words
irk, porn, woot, pfft, fuck, swelter, homonculus, astronomical, booboo, capitulate, liquidation, pendulum and 30 more...
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These words I LIKE.
laconic, blackrom, yandere, sundry, equivocal, tetracycline, raze, scapegoat, impala, perspicacity, quandary, viscous and 34 more...
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foreign affairs
abacost, abra, zamindar, wampum, chobdar, chota-hazri, chandoo, dacoit, Devanagari, dewan, gen-gen, gharry and 87 more...
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ungulate
because they have the lovliest names!
ungulate, pronghorn, okapi, giraffe, llama, peccary, tapir, oryx, dik dik, duiker, eland, gazelle and 30 more...
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Antelope
gazelle, impala, pronghorn, nilgai, blackbuck, klipspringer, gemsbok, eland, oryx, kudu, duiker, chinkara and 54 more...
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Some words are just pretty.
tesseract, soliloquy, cadaver, pyramid, effulgence, cadence, assuage, ouija, innuendo, bedwarm, unguent, epitome and 16 more...
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