sable antelope love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large African antelope (Hippotragus niger) having a thick mane, long horns, and a coat that is brown in females and black in males, with white underparts.

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  • noun A large antelope (Hippotragus niger) of eastern and southern Africa.

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  • noun large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns

Etymologies

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probably from its sable black coloring

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