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

  • noun Either of two African antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having vertical white stripes on the body, especially T. angasii of southeast Africa, the male of which has spirally twisted horns and long black hair along the neck and underside.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See inyala.

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

  • noun (Zool.) A spiral-horned South African antelope (Tragelaphus angasi) with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck.

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

  • noun A south African antelope, Tragelaphus angasii, with thin white stripes in the grey or brown coat, a ridge of tufted hair running all along the spine, and long horns with a spiral twist.

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

  • noun spiral-horned South African antelope with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck
  • noun city in Sudan

Etymologies

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

[Tsonga (Bantu language of South Africa or Mozambique) and Venda nyala.]

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  • "nyala" in Hungarian is the obscure past tense of "nyalni" (to lick)

    August 7, 2012