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Encyclopedia Britannica



ORYX (Gr. opvE, a pickaxe, hence applied to the animal)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 343 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
ORYX (Gr. opvE, a pickaxe, hence applied to the animal) , the scientific name of a group of
African
  antelopes of relatively large size with
long
  straight or
scimitar
 -shaped horns, which are present in both sexes, and
long
  tufted tails. They are all
desert
  animals. The true oryx of classical writers was probably the
East
  and North-
east
 
African
  beisa-oryx (Oryx beisa), which is replaced in
South
  Africa by the gemsbuck (oryx gazella). In Northern Africa the group is represented by the
scimitar
 -horned 0. leucoryx or 0. algazal, and in Arabia by the small
white
  oryx (0. beatrix). See ANTELOPE.


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