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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORYX (Gr. opvE, a pickaxe, hence applied to the See also:animal)  , the scientific name of a See also:group of See also:African antelopes of relatively large See also:size with See also:long straight or See also:scimitar-shaped horns, which are See also:present in both sexes, and long tufted tails . They are all See also:desert animals . The true See also:oryx of classical writers was probably the See also:East and See also:North-east African beisa-oryx (Oryx beisa), which is replaced in See also:South See also:Africa by the gemsbuck (oryx gazella) . In See also:Northern Africa the group is represented by the scimitar-horned 0. leucoryx or 0. algazal, and in See also:Arabia by the small See also:white oryx (0. beatrix) . See See also:ANTELOPE .

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