royal antelope

noun

: a tiny western African antelope (Neotragus pygmaeus) that is one of the smallest of ruminants standing only 12 inches high at the shoulder and has in the male short spikelike horns and bright russet above and white below

called also kleeneboc

Word History

First Known Use

1771, in the meaning defined above

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