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

Example Sentences

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

“As luck would have it,” Newby says, “their area of interest landed slap-bang in the middle of the addax population in Tin Toumma,” a remote region in eastern Niger that held the largest addax population.

From National Geographic • Mar. 2, 2016

And last June, when Sahara Conservation Fund researchers conducted a ground survey of the area, they discovered the grisly remains of an addax in a military camp.

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

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