common eland

1. 1.

   dark fawn-colored eland of southern and eastern Africa

   SynonymsTaurotragus oryx

   Broadereland

   Part ofTaurotragus

Questions about common eland

What does common eland mean?

common eland means "dark fawn-colored eland of southern and eastern Africa".

What is another word for common eland?

Close synonyms include Taurotragus oryx. 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 common eland a common word?

common eland 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.