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# antelope

«antelope» in Mova's school dictionary: **A fast, graceful wild animal like a deer, with horns…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an antelope, antelopes or antelope)

### meaning for a pupil

A fast, graceful wild animal like a deer, with horns, that lives mainly in Africa and Asia, such as the gazelle, impala and gnu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antelope/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Met in science and geography about the African savannah, food chains and herds: lions and cheetahs hunt antelopes. Phrases: a herd of antelope, antelope species.

### examples

- The antelope ran away from the lion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antelope/#x1)
- A herd of antelope grazed on the grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antelope/#x2)
- Gazelles are a kind of antelope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antelope/#x3)
- Antelopes have horns that do not fall off each year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antelope/#x4)
- The cheetah chased an antelope across the plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antelope/#x5)
- In the food chain, grass is eaten by the antelope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antelope/#x6)
- An antelope, that probably mistook the yellow radiance for sunrise, came bounding fleetly through the grove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antelope/#x7)

### note

Plural antelopes or antelope (both correct). Not a deer: antelopes keep their horns all their life, while deer shed antlers every year. The American "pronghorn antelope" is not a true antelope.

### In the corpora

- [Duikers are small forest antelopes whose name means diver in Afrikaans, because they plunge into thick bushes to escape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «antelope» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antelope/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.