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tragelaph|ˈtrægɪlæf|
Also in L. form tragelaphus |trəˈgɛləfəs|, pl. -i.
[ad. L. tragelaph-us, a. Gr. τραγέλαϕος, f. τράγος he-goat + ἔλαϕος deer.]
1. (Rendering Gr. τραγέλαϕος.)
a. A name for some foreign species of capriform antelope or other horned beast, vaguely known to the ancients.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. ci. (Bodl. MS.), Tragelaphus is icleped Ircoceruus also and haþ þat name tragelaphus of trages þat is a gotte bucke and elephos þat is an herte. Ibid., Tragelaphi..som beþ of þe kinde of þe herte. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 93 Of the first kinde of Tragelaphus which may be called a Deer-goat. Ibid. 94 There is another kinde..like a Deer..Pliny affirmeth, that they are found about the river Phasis, in Arabia and Arachotæ,..a City of India..which [beast] the Græcians call Tragelaphos, and the Germans, Ein Brandhirse... The figure of another Tragelaphus, or Deer-Goat, expressed by Bellonius..it wanteth a beard, and the hair thereof resembleth an Ibex-Goat..: the horns..like a Goats, but more crooked..which he never loseth. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tragelaph (tragelaphus), the great and blackish deere called a stone-buck, deer-goat, or goat-hart. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. ii. v. 327 There is in the forests of Germany, a kind of stag, named by the ancients the Tragelaphus, and which the natives call the bran deer, or the brown deer.
b. Myth. A fabulous or fictitious beast compounded of a goat and a stag; hence allusively.
1644Featly Levites Scourge 60 What Chimera's, Tragelaphusses, and Hippocentaurs dost thou talk of? a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1693) 49 Tragelaphi, Satyrs and Griffins, Cocks and Bulls. 1818R. P. Knight Anc. Art & Mythol. §114. 88 Among the principal of these symbols [of Diana] is the deer,..which is sometimes blended into one figure with the goat, so as to form a composite fictitious animal called a Tragelephus. 1898C. Thomas Faust I. p. lxiv, The ‘tragelaph’ had to be disposed of!
2. Zool. Any antelope of the modern genus Tragelaphus, as the S. African boschbok, T. sylvaticus, and the W. African harnessed antelope, T. scriptus, Speke's tragelaph, T. Spekii.
1888Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Tragelaphus. 1908Sir H. H. Johnston Grenfell & Congo II. xxxiii. 923 In Tragelaphs the Congo regions are well endowed. 1910Contemp. Rev., Suppl. Nov. 11 Two of these ruffians shot over fifty of the rare antelope called Speke's tragelaph.
So tragelaphine |trəˈgɛləfaɪn| a., belonging to the group Tragelaphīnæ of antelopes, typified by the genus Tragelaphus; n. an antelope of this group.
1891Flower & Lydekker Mammals ix. 345 Tragelaphine Section... Includes large, so-called Bovine, Antelopes now mainly characteristic of the Ethiopian region. 1900Nature 11 Oct. 585/1 If the markings of the Tragelaphines have the significance here attached to them, they should be better developed in the species that live in the bush than in those that frequent the open. 1905P. C. Mitchell Guide Gard. Zool. Soc. (ed. 3) 43 The Tragelaphine Group (Tragelaphinæ) contains mostly large Antelopes with spirally-twisted horns. |