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noun - fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
PRONGHORN - The pronghorn (UK: , US: ) (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Thoug...
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| Hoofed mammal's stench enveloping river on cape |
| Animals With Hooves |
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| Oct 13 2017 Monkey Wrench Daily Puzzle |
| Aug 30 2011 The Times - Cryptic |
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| This hoofed mammal can really hoof it, hitting 60 MPH |
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| A small ruminant mammal (Antilocapra americana) resembling an antelope and having small forked horns, found on western North American plains. Also called pronghorn antelope. |
| a deer-like North American mammal with a stocky body, long slim legs, and black horns that are shed and regrown annually. |
| fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns |
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The pronghorn (UK: , US: ) (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope, prairie antelope, or simply antelope because it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution.It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. During the Pleistocene period, about 12 antilocaprid species existed in North America. Three other genera (Capromeryx, Stockoceros and Tetrameryx) existed when humans entered North America but are now extinct. * As a member of the superfamily Giraffoidea, the pronghorn's closest living relatives are the giraffes and okapi. The Giraffoidea are in turn members of the infraorder Pecora, making pronghorns more distant relatives of the Cervidae (deer) and Bovidae (cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, and |