addax
Americannoun
noun
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
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
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
Newby hopes the addax can avoid the same fate as another desert antelope, the Scimitar-horned oryx, which went extinct in the wild in the 1980s during Chad’s civil war.
From National Geographic ● Mar. 2, 2016
In this desert region is found the addax, the rarest of Sudan antelopes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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