Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reddish-brown African antelope (Aepyceros melampus) that has long, curved horns in the male and is noted for its ability to leap.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An African antelope of the genus Æpyceros, which has rather long, divergent, lyrate horns. The best-known species is Æ. melampus of South Africa, of a dark-red color, white below, standing about 3 feet high.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An antelope (
Aepyceros melampus ) of Southeastern Africa, the male of which has ringed lyre-shaped horns, which curve first backward, then sideways, then upwards. ALso calledimpalla andpallah .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
African antelope Aepyceros melampus noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns,
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Though the end of the sequence wasn’t shown, King explained that the gazelle must have endured a slow, agonising death [the adjacent image, showing two cheetahs taking down an impala, is nothing to do with Duma or the attack I've just been discussing: it's from game-reserve. com].
Finally: big cat kills uncensored and uncut Darren Naish 2006
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Though the end of the sequence wasn’t shown, King explained that the gazelle must have endured a slow, agonising death [the adjacent image, showing two cheetahs taking down an impala, is nothing to do with Duma or the attack I've just been discussing: it's from game-reserve. com].
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Desert rose is also known as the impala lily, desert azalea and sabie star.
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Just saw it on CNN its crazy,its like asking a lion if they know that the impala is a protected species, it could care less, that whole christmas tittle is as irrelevenat asinsert cliché of choice
'Do they know its Christmas?' Minzo 2004
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v = P_NptWQO-F4 my impala was a far cry from a corvette killer, bc. iirc., the impala drive train was the same as yours, but toting nearly twice the mass. regardless, the powerglide was a thing of beauty.
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I shoot a jaguar take down there awesome but i like the pse impala takedown better
Anybody have a review for the Martin Jaguar take-down recurve? 2010
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I shoot a jaguar take down there awesome but i like the pse impala takedown better
Anybody have a review for the Martin Jaguar take-down recurve? 2010
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Reciprocal allogrooming in impala, Aepyceros melampus.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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There were six, a young sable cow and five impala, spaced in a line 200 yards long.
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