Sable antelope Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns
    Hippotragus niger.

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  1. (Zoöl.), a large South African antelope (Hippotragus niger). Both sexes have long, sharp horns. The adult male is black; the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath.

Webster 1913