BONGO (bongoes)

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Irregular inflected form: bongoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bongo mean? 

• BONGO (noun)
  The noun BONGO has 2 senses:

1. a small drum; played with the hands

2. large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns

  Familiarity information: BONGO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small drum; played with the hands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bongo; bongo drum

Hypernyms ("bongo" is a kind of...):

drum; membranophone; tympan (a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bongo; Boocercus eurycerus; Tragelaphus eurycerus

Hypernyms ("bongo" is a kind of...):

antelope (graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks)

Holonyms ("bongo" is a member of...):

genus Strepsiceros; genus Tragelaphus; Strepsiceros; Tragelaphus (African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks)