Plural: addaxes
ETYM Native name.
Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa; SYN. Addax nasomaculatus.
Large African antelope.
Light-colored antelope Addax nasomaculatus of the family Bovidae. It lives in the Sahara desert where it exists on scanty vegetation without drinking. It is about 1.1 m/3.5 ft at the shoulder, and both sexes have spirally twisted horns.