alcelaphus bubalis

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alcelaphus bubalis - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bubale \Bu"ba*le\, n. [Cf. F. bubale. See Buffalo, n.] (Zool.)
     A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the
     Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of
     the Bible.
     [1913 Webster]