ANTELOPE

noun (plural -lope or -lopes) Etymology: Middle English, fabulous heraldic beast, probably from Middle French antelop savage animal with sawlike horns, from Medieval Latin anthalopus, from Late Greek antholop-, antholops Date: 15th century 1. any of various ruminant deerlike mammals (family Bovidae) chiefly of Africa and southwest Asia that have a slender lean build and usually horns directed upward and backward, pronghorn , leather from ~ hide