O"ryx (?), n. [NL., from Gr. a kind of gazelle or antelope.] Zool.

A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia.

 

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