oryx
noun
a large antelope of the genus Oryx, with pale fur and long horns: three species are native to arid regions of Africa, and the fourth inhabits Arabia.
oryxes
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pluralof oryx.plural
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In the 1990s, he even introduced a herd of scimitar-horned oryxes, as part of a conservation effort to protect the endangered Saharan antelope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
And the oryxes, and the Barbary sheep, and the Przewalski’s horses, the giraffes, the dromedary camels and a variety of other hoofed mammals.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
Among the representatives of vanishing species there were Mongolian wild horses, scimitar-horned oryxes, maned wolves, red-crowned and white-naped cranes, Bali mynas, black-footed ferrets, clouded leopards, Eld’s deer and cheetahs.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2013
Who, after all, wanted a flat, trackless desert coated with gravel and hospitable only to a few grazing oryxes, hares and gazelles?
From Time Magazine Archive
Yoffe bought three addaxes for $10,000 from a game preserve in New York's Catskills, for example, and three Saharan oryxes cost him $2,500 a head.
From Time Magazine Archive
