'Hippotragus niger' definitions:
Definition of 'Hippotragus niger'
From: WordNet
noun
Large black East African antelope with sharp backward- curving horns [syn: sable antelope, Hippotragus niger]
Definition of 'Hippotragus niger'
From: GCIDE
- Sable \Sa"ble\, a. Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry. [1913 Webster]
- Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. --Young. [1913 Webster]
- Sable antelope (Zool.), a large South African antelope (Hippotragus niger). Both sexes have long, sharp horns. The adult male is black; the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath.
- Sable iron, a superior quality of Russia iron; -- so called because originally stamped with the figure of a sable.
- Sable mouse (Zool.), the lemming. [1913 Webster]