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

“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

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

"The addax or Nubian antelope," how frequently one may hear a father say to his small son in the schoolroom, "has horns very similar to those of the Indian antelope, but is a larger animal."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 by Various