strepsiceros

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  1. Some antelope with twisted horns, as the koodoo; originally, perhaps, the addax.
  2. [capitalized] [NL. (Hamilton Smith, 1827).] A genus of antelopes with twisted or spiral horns. The only species now left in the genus is S. kudu, the koodoo. See cut under koodoo.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin strepsiceros, from Greek *στρεψίκερως, an animal with twisted horns, called by the Africans addax.
 

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