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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Addax

Pronunciation / Transliteration: adaks

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Addax/ˈæd.æks/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Addax wird auch Schraubenhornantilope genannt."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A critically endangered pale-colored antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) of the Sahara desert, having long, twisted, spiral horns.

    "Conservationists are working tirelessly to protect the remaining population of the addax in its natural desert habitat."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Arabic word 'ad-daxx', which refers to a wild animal with crooked horns. It entered the English language in the early 19th century via Neo-Latin nomenclature used in zoological taxonomy to describe the white antelope native to the Sahara desert.

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