eland
/ˈiːlənd
/noun
A large spiral-horned African antelope which lives in open woodland and grassland.
- Genus Tragelaphus, family Bovidae: the giant eland (T. derbianus) and the common eland (T. oryx).
- Across the open grasslands are scattered various members of the antelope family - horned bushbucks, waterbucks, eland, topi, gazelle and impala.
- They are typically graceful, having long legs and horns, and include the eland, wildebeest, gazelle, springbok, hartebeest, impala, etc.
Origin
Late 18th century: via Afrikaans from Dutch, 'elk', from obsolete German Elend, from Lithuanian élnis.
Rhymes
- liver-grown
- liver-hearted
- liveried
- livering
- liverish
- liverishly
- liverishness
- liverleaf
- liverless
- liver line
- liver-lipped
- liver lips
- liver money
- liver mush
- liver of antimony
- liver of sulfur
- liver of sulphur
- liver oil
- liver opal
- live rough
- liver pad
- liver pill
- Liverpool
- Liverpool, 2nd Earl of
- Liverpool button