antilope cervicapra

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   common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns

   Synonymsblackbuckblack buck

   Broaderantelope

   Part ofAntilope

Questions about antilope cervicapra

What does antilope cervicapra mean?

antilope cervicapra means "common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns".

What is another word for antilope cervicapra?

Close synonyms include blackbuck, black buck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antilope cervicapra a common word?

antilope cervicapra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.