blue antelope

English

Noun

blue antelope

1. (now historical) A bluebuck of the extinct species †Hippotragus leucophaeus. [from 18th c.]
   • 1777, Georg Forster, A Voyage Round the World, University of Hawai‘i Press, published 2000, page 59:

     The blue antelope, (blauwe bock) is really of a blueish colour, but when killed soon loses the velvet-like appearance of its fur.