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antelope
An antelope is a member of a number of even-toed ungulate species indigenous to various regions in Africa and Eurasia. Antelopes comprise a wastebasket taxon (miscellaneous group) within the family Bovidae, encompassing those Old World species that are not cattle, sheep, buffalo, bison, or goats. A group of antelope is called a herd.
==Etymology==
The English word "antelope" first appeared in 1417 and is derived from the Old French ''antelop'', itself derived from Medieval Latin ''ant(h)alopus'', which in turn comes from the Byzantine Greek word ''anthólops'', first attested in Eustathius of Antioch (''circa'' 336), according to whom it was a fabulous animal "haunting the banks of the Euphrates, very savage, hard to catch and having long, saw-like horns capable of cutting down trees".〔("Antelope". ) ''Dictionary.com''. ''Online Etymology Dictionary''. Douglas Harper, Historian. Accessed 1 September 2008.〕 It perhaps derives from Greek ''anthos'' (flower) and ''ops'' (eye), perhaps meaning "beautiful eye" or alluding to the animals' long eyelashes. This, however, may be a later folk etymology. The word ''talopus'' and ''calopus'', from Latin, came to be used in heraldry. In 1607, it was first used for living, cervine animals.
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