GAZELLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gazelle mean? 

• GAZELLE (noun)
  The noun GAZELLE has 1 sense:

1. small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes

  Familiarity information: GAZELLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAZELLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gazelle" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gazelle"):

Gazella thomsoni; Thomson's gazelle (East African gazelle; the smallest gazelle)

Gazella subgutturosa (a kind of gazelle)

Antidorcas euchore; Antidorcas marsupialis; springbok; springbuck (a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air)

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

Gazella; genus Gazella (typical gazelles)

 Context examples 

"Is she original? Is she piquant? I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle- eyes, houri forms, and all!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)