damaliscus

1. 1.

   African antelopes: sassabies

   Synonymsgenus Damaliscus

   Broadermammal genus

   Part ofBovidae

Other forms of damaliscus

plural

damaliscuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about damaliscus

What does damaliscus mean?

damaliscus means "African antelopes: sassabies".

How many syllables are in damaliscus?

damaliscus has 4 syllables: da-ma-li-scus. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for damaliscus?

Close synonyms include genus Damaliscus. 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 damaliscus a common word?

damaliscus 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.