sable antelopes
sable antelopes is the plural of sable antelope.
Meaning of sable antelope
Noun
sable antelope (plural sable antelopes)
- A large antelope, of species Hippotragus niger, of eastern and southern Africa.
- 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.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
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- Sable antelopes is the plural of sable antelope.
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