Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the characters of a gazel; pertaining to the Gazellinæ: specifically applied to that group of antelopes which the common gazel exemplifies.
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Examples
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Mr. Hodgson further remarks that "the _chiru_ antelope can only belong either to the gazelline or the antelopine group.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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1887 OsW gazelline gazelle OW bubaline hartebeest giraffine giraffe 1901
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