also 7 addace. [L., ad. African word. ‘Strepsiceroti, quem Addacem Africa adpellat.’ Plin., H. N., xi. 37. post in. § 45.] A quadruped: a species of boviform or ox-like antelope, allied to the Nyl-ghau and Gnu, inhabiting Northern Africa. (Oryx nasomaculata.)
1693. Ray, Synop. Quadr., 79, in Chambers, Cycl. Supp. (1753). Addace, in natural history, the name by which the Africans call the common Antelope.
1847. Carpenter, Zool., § 268. The Addax … living solitarily, or in pairs, on the borders and oases of the deserts.
1876. Wood, Bible Animals, 141. Modern commentators have agreed that there is every probability that the Dishon of the Pentateuch was the Antelope known by the name of Addax … The ordinary height of the Addax is three feet seven or eight inches.
