Oryx

Definition

= medium-sized antelope, about the size of a donkey, with long slender horns that are usually over a meter long; these horns are almost straight and slope back from the animal’s head at about thirty degrees from the perpendicular; the adults are a light fawn color with dark brown markings on the face and on the lower part of both front and back legs; the belly is white; ◄ Oryx leucoryx; ► unclean and therefore not to be eaten