Crossword clues for nyala
nyala
- One bounds area between two American cities
- One bounding area that separates two major cities
- Spiral-horned South African antelope
- South African antelope - Sudanese city
- Some loony alarmed antelope
- Fuss around an essential component of life for a fighter
- Large African antelope
- Spiral-horned African antelope
- South African antelope
- South African antelope — Sudanese city
- City in western Sudan
- African antelope with spiral horns
- Antelope with lyre-shaped horns
- Spiral-horned antelope
- City in Sudan
- Spiral-horned South African antelope with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck
- Bushbuck
- White-striped antelope
- Striped antelope
- Antelope of E Africa
- African antelope snared by many, alas
- Antelope found in many a land
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nyala \nyala\ n. (Zool.) A spiral-horned South African antelope ( Tragelaphus angasi) with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck.
Syn: Tragelaphus angasi.
Wiktionary
n. A south African antelope, (taxlink Tragelaphus angasii species noshow=1), with thin white stripes in the grey or brown coat, a ridge of tufted hair running all along the spine, and long horns with a spiral twist.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The nyala (Tragelaphus angasii), also called inyala, is a spiral-horned antelope native to southern Africa. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus Nyala, also considered to be in the genus Tragelaphus. It was first described in 1849 by George French Angas. The body length is , and it weighs . The coat is rusty or rufous brown in females and juveniles, but grows a dark brown or slate grey, often tinged with blue, in adult males. Females and young males have ten or more white stripes on their sides. Only males have horns, long and yellow-tipped. It exhibits the highest sexual dimorphism among the spiral-horned antelopes.
The nyala is mainly active in the early morning and the late afternoon. It generally browses during the day if temperatures are and during the night in the rainy season. As a herbivore, the nyala feeds upon foliage, fruits and grasses, with sufficient fresh water. A shy animal, it prefers water holes rather than open spaces. The nyala does not show signs of territoriality, and individuals areas can overlap each others. They are very cautious creatures. Old males live alone, but single sex or mixed family groups of up to 10 individuals can be found. These inhabit thickets within dense and dry savanna woodlands. The main predators of the nyala are lion, leopard and Cape hunting dog, while baboons and raptorial birds hunt for the juveniles. Mating peaks during spring and autumn. Males and females are sexually mature at 18 and 11–12 months of age respectively, though they are socially immature until five years old. After a gestational period of seven months, a single calf is born.
The nyala's range includes Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. It has been introduced to Botswana and Namibia, and reintroduced to Swaziland, where it had been extinct since the 1950s. Its population is stable and it has been listed as of Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The principal threats to the species are poaching and habitat loss resulting from human settlement. The males are highly prized as game animals in Africa.
The nyala and the mountain nyala are African antelopes. The term Nyala may also refer to:
- Kuni-Muktar Mountain Nyala Sanctuary, a protected area and wildlife sanctuary in Ethiopia
- the Nyala tree, Xanthocercis zambesiaca, an African tree
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Nyala Stadium, a multi-use stadium in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
- Nyala SC, an Ethiopian football club
- Nyala, Nevada, an unincorporated community in Nye County, Nevada, United States
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Nyala, Sudan
- Nyala Airport
- Nyala University
- RG-31 Nyala, an armoured vehicle
- Nyala, tribe, tribe of the Luhya people
- Nyala language (Luhya) (ISO 639-3: nle) – a Luhya language from Bantu group spoken in Kenya
- Nyala language (Sudan) (ISO 639-3: daj) – a Nilo-Saharan language language spoken in Sudan
- Nyala (typeface), a font for Latin alphabet and Ge'ez script on Windows 7
Nyala is an OpenType TrueType flavour font based on Sylfaen and designed to support the Latin alphabet and the Ge'ez script used in Ethiopic languages. It was created by John Hudson and Geraldine Wade and is part of the Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. The font was named for the mountain nyala, a species of great African antelope native to the highlands of Ethiopia.
Usage examples of "nyala".
She pulled the sword out of the sheath and turned the flashlight on it so Nyala could see the satiny green-black wood.
With Nyala behind her, Rashel ran lightly down the stairs and around to the street.
One of the flashlights swung down and suddenly Nyala was in front of Rashel, her body tense, her voice almost pleading.
But Nyala seemed to have reached some peak of fury at which nothing from outside could touch her.
Something she had to do, not for Nyala, or for Vicky, or for the Lancers, but just for herself.
She spoke slowly and distinctly, hoping Nyala could sense the truth of her words.
Rashel looked shoreward, to see that Daphne, Annelise, and Nyala were on the pier with her.
The girls who might have helped her-Daphne and Nyala and Annelise were at the far end of the wharf or on the boats.
Daphne and Nyala were only fifteen feet away, but they were both staring at Quinn and seemed riveted in place.
But none of the vampires charged toward Nyala with her about-to-explode bottle of death and her can of fire accelerant.
Quinn was diving for the floor past Nyala, trying to drag Rashel with him.
They lurched down the path in the wild grass, Quinn supporting Nyala, she carrying Timmy.
Come to think of it, Circle Daybreak was where Nyala and Timmy belonged, too.
She thought Nyala would be all right-there was a kind of inner strength to the girl that kept her fighting.
Its job-and that of company troubleshooter Neil Mannix - is to move a giant transformer across Nyala, an oil-rich African state.