addax

American  

[ad-aks] / ˈæd æks /

noun

1. a large, pale-colored antelope, Addax nasomaculatus, of North Africa, with loosely spiraled horns.

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addax British  

/ ˈædæks /

noun

1. a large light-coloured antelope, Addax nasomaculatus, having ribbed loosely spiralled horns and inhabiting desert regions in N Africa: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla

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Etymology

Origin of addax

From Latin, dating back to 1685–95, presumably < some language of ancient North Africa

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The addax – also known as the screwhorn antelope – is one of the world’s most endangered species of antelopes.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2018

Amid all this turmoil, Niger set up the largest preserve in Africa—the Termit & Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve—to protect the remaining addax as well as other animals such as dama gazelles and Barbary sheep.

From National Geographic ● Mar. 2, 2016

One desert creature is spectacularly adapted to these conditions: the addax, an ethereal-looking antelope with elongated, corkscrew horns.

From National Geographic ● Mar. 2, 2016

Two hundred addax once roamed Niger's Termit & Tin Toumma nature reserve.

From National Geographic ● Mar. 2, 2016

But the edges of the great desert have been visited, and on the northern limits two animals are found—the addax antelope, and Loder's gazelle.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Savory, Isabel