Illustration of eland
eland
noun
ˈē-lənd 
-ˌland
plural eland also elands
: either of two large African antelopes (Taurotragus oryx synonym Tragelaphus oryx and Taurotragus derbianus synonym Tragelaphus derbianus) bovine in form with short spirally twisted horns in both sexes
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The victim and the park’s owner, Richard Berglund, were taking the animals into stables after the park had closed when an eland, the world’s largest species of antelope, gored the employee, Berglund told reporters. 
Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022 At night, guests sit around the fire with local Masai guides -- and more often than not a giant eland antelope with tusks that could kill will saunter up to Cottar and start drinking red wine from his glass. Melissa Twigg, CNN, 20 May 2022 In less than an hour, the rangers find two more homemade snares, the third attached to the leg of an eland, the world's largest antelope. Scott Mclean, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021 And a mounted head of a female eland antelope, which Bradshaw purchased from Wishbone Reserve in Hampden, adds a sophisticated ruggedness to the living room. John-john Williams Iv, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2020 Most safaris these days include a buffalo or two, sometimes a hippo or elephant, rarely a lion, but commonly a lot of plains game varying in size from 10-pound dik-dik antelope up to 2,000-pound eland. Outdoor Life, 3 Jan. 2020 Guests stay at Campi ya Kanzi, an ecolodge in the heart of the trust’s 300,000 acres of community conservancy land, where lions, eland, and other big game roam between Kenya’s Amboseli and Tsavo national parks. National Geographic, 31 Dec. 2019 And the boom is continuing with another giant eland and a giraffe expected any day. USA TODAY, 12 July 2019 There are more than 12,000 elephants roaming Mana’s flood plains as well as an abundance of lions, buffaloes, zebras, wild dogs, hyenas, zebras and elands. Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019 See More
Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022 At night, guests sit around the fire with local Masai guides -- and more often than not a giant eland antelope with tusks that could kill will saunter up to Cottar and start drinking red wine from his glass. Melissa Twigg, CNN, 20 May 2022 In less than an hour, the rangers find two more homemade snares, the third attached to the leg of an eland, the world's largest antelope. Scott Mclean, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021 And a mounted head of a female eland antelope, which Bradshaw purchased from Wishbone Reserve in Hampden, adds a sophisticated ruggedness to the living room. John-john Williams Iv, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2020 Most safaris these days include a buffalo or two, sometimes a hippo or elephant, rarely a lion, but commonly a lot of plains game varying in size from 10-pound dik-dik antelope up to 2,000-pound eland. Outdoor Life, 3 Jan. 2020 Guests stay at Campi ya Kanzi, an ecolodge in the heart of the trust’s 300,000 acres of community conservancy land, where lions, eland, and other big game roam between Kenya’s Amboseli and Tsavo national parks. National Geographic, 31 Dec. 2019 And the boom is continuing with another giant eland and a giraffe expected any day. USA TODAY, 12 July 2019 There are more than 12,000 elephants roaming Mana’s flood plains as well as an abundance of lions, buffaloes, zebras, wild dogs, hyenas, zebras and elands. Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
Afrikaans, elk, from Dutch, from obsolete German Elend, probably from obsolete Lithuanian ellenis; akin to Old High German elaho elk — more at elk
First Known Use
1600, in the meaning defined above