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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A reddish-brown African antelope (Aepyceros melampus) that has long, curved horns in the male and is noted for its ability to leap.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An African antelope of the genus Æpyceros, which has rather long, divergent, lyrate horns. The best-known species is Æ. melampus of South Africa, of a dark-red color, white below, standing about 3 feet high.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An antelope (Aepyceros melampus) of Southeastern Africa, the male of which has ringed lyre-shaped horns, which curve first backward, then sideways, then upwards. ALso called impalla and pallah.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An African antelope Aepyceros melampus noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns,

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Zulu ím-pàlà : ím-, n. pref. + -pàlà, impala.]

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From Zulu impala.

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