tiangn.
/tiːˈaŋ/ A small dark brown antelope belonging to a race of the korrigum, Damaliscus lunatus, found in the Sudan and neighbouring parts of Ethiopia.
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1894 P. L. Sclater & M. R. O. Thomas Bk. Antelopes I. 63 The Tiang, as the well-known German traveller and naturalist Theodor von Heuglin proposed to call this Antelope, after its native name, is a representative form of the Korrigum in the upper valley of the Nile.
1915 Chambers's Jrnl. 700/2 Near allies of the hartebeest are the tsesseby..and its northern cousin the tapi or tiang.
1969 Times 30 Jan. (Ethiopia Suppl.) p. iii/3 The south-west corner of Ethiopia is an area inhabited by Sudanese lowland fauna, including..tiang.
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