eland

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   either of two very large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus, with spirally twisted horns in both sexes

   A herd of eland grazed across the savanna near the water hole.

Borrowed from Afrikaans eland, 'elk,' from Dutch eland, an old Germanic deer name related to elk. European settlers at the Cape transferred the familiar animal name to the large African antelope.

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