tragelaph
/ˈtradʒəlɑːf/ /ˈtradʒəlaf/noun
Zoology. Any of various antelopes of sub-Saharan Africa constituting the genus Tragelaphus, having spiral horns and white stripes or spots, and comprising the kudus, nyalas, bushbucks, and related forms. Now rare.
- Speke's tragelaph is a former name of the sitatunga, T. spekii..
Origin
Late Middle English (in an earlier sense). From classical Latin tragelaphus a kind of wild goat or antelope from ancient Greek τραγέλαϕος a fabulous or fictitious beast compounded of a goat and a stag, in Hellenistic Greek also a kind of wild goat or antelope (Septuagint) from τράγος he-goat + ἔλαϕος deer.