Crossword clues for oryx
oryx
- Big African antelope
- Straight-horned African antelope
- Large antelope
- Desert antelope
- Huge African antelope
- Straight-horned Saharan antelope
- Straight-horned antelope
- Sabre antelope
- Nearly straight-horned antelope
- Margaret Atwood's "___ and Crake"
- Margaret Atwood novel "___ and Crake"
- Long-horned African antelope
- Horned antelope
- Gemsbok, e.g
- Endangered African antelope
- Big antelope
- Atwood's "___ and Crake"
- Antelope with long, straight horns
- Antelope that often has nearly upright horns
- Antelope of the desert
- African long-horned grazer
- Endangered antelope
- African antelope
- African grazer
- Animal some believe to be the source of the unicorn myth
- Straight-horned African animal
- Large African antelope with long straight horns
- Serengeti antelope
- Antelope related to the gemsbok
- "Scimitar-horned" creature
- Relative of a gemsbok
- Cousin of a gazelle
- Variety of antelope
- Serengeti roamer
- Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns
- Gemsbok's cousin
- Impofo's kin
- Eland's cousin
- Long-horned antelope
- Relative of an eland
- Antelope of Africa
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oryx \O"ryx\ ([=o]"r[i^]ks), prop. n. [NL., from Gr. 'o`ryx a kind of gazelle or antelope.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope ( Oryx beisa), and the beatrix antelope ( Oryx beatrix) of Arabia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin oryx, from Greek oryx (genitive orygos) "North African antelope with pointed horns, the digging animal," literally "pick-axe." Used in Greek and Latin bibles to render Hebrew tho, which early English Bibles misidentified as everything from a small hibernating animal to a wild bull.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several antelopes, of genus ''Oryx'', native to Africa, the males and females of which have long, straight horns.
WordNet
n. large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns [syn: pasang]
Wikipedia
Oryx is a genus consisting of four large antelope species. Three of them are native to arid parts of Africa, and the fourth to the Arabian Peninsula. Their fur is pale with contrasting dark markings in the face and on the legs, and their long horns are almost straight. The exception is the scimitar oryx, which lacks dark markings on the legs, only has faint dark markings on the head, has an ochre neck, and horns that are clearly decurved.
The Arabian oryx was only saved from extinction through a captive breeding program and reintroduction to the wild. The scimitar oryx, which is now listed as Extinct in the Wild, also relies on a captive breeding program for its survival. Small populations of several oryx species, such as the scimitar oryx, exist in Texas and New Mexico (USA) in wild game ranches. Gemsboks were released at the White Sands Missile Range and have become an invasive species of concern at the adjacent White Sands National Monument.
ORYX is an encryption algorithm used in cellular communications in order to protect data traffic. It is a stream cipher designed to have a very strong 96-bit key strength with a way to reduce the strength to 32-bits for export. However, due to mistakes the actual strength is a trivial 16-bits and any signal can be cracked after the first 25-27 bytes.
Oryx may refer to:
- Atlas Oryx, a helicopter
- Oryx, an antelope genus
- Oryx, one of the title characters of the 2003 Margaret Atwood novel Oryx and Crake
- Oryx (ancient city), an ancient city in Arcadia
- Oryx, a name of the 16th nome of ancient Upper Egypt, centered on what is now Minya
- Oryx, the in-flight entertainment system on Qatar Airways
- Oryx (journal), a scientific journal of conservation biology
- ORYX, an encryption algorithm
- ORYX GTL, a synthetic fuel plant in Qatar
- ORYX, The Joint Commission performance measurement initiative (healthcare)
- The name of an extragalactic conqueror and titular antagonist in the third expansion "The Taken King" for Destiny
Oryx , also Halus was an ancient town in Arcadia, part of the district of Kleitor. It was situated on the river Ladon, between Nassoi and Thaliades. The location of the ancient city is believed to be in or near the present Ladon reservoir.
Oryx is a peer-reviewed academic journal of conservation published quarterly by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fauna & Flora International. The journal was established in 1904 as Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, and is currently edited by Martin Fisher. The named changed to Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, and acquired its current name in 1950.
Usage examples of "oryx".
The picture of open jaws and fangs suddenly reminded him with considerable force of his nerve racking brush with the beisa oryx.
After his alarming experience with the beisa oryx, the Count was not eager to take foolhardy risks.
Park of Extinct Animals was breached and many of the inner enclosures were opened, releasing into the wilderness nearly the entire extraordinary collection of carefully cloned beasts of yesteryear: moas, quaggas, giant ground sloths, dodos, passenger pigeons, aurochs, oryxes, saber-toothed cats, great auks, cahows and many another lost species that had been called back from oblivion by the most painstaking manipulation of fossil genetic material.
Amongst the grey-green thorn trees and dense scrub goat and camel grazed in company with gazelle and gerenuk, oryx and greater kudu.
Africa was much wetter and lusher, when the people called the Strandlopers hunted oryx and springbok and impala on the beach, and rivers like the Secomib and Nadas still reached the sea.
The common people preferred attacking the gazelle, the oryx, the mouflon sheep, the ibex, the wild ox, and the ostrich, but did not disdain more humble game, such as the porcupine and long-eared hare: nondescript packs, in which the jackal and the hyena ran side by side with the wolf-dog and the lithe Abyssinian greyhound, scented and retrieved for their master the prey which he had pierced with his arrows.
The blesbok was too small and skittish - would only teach our oryx frustration.
The picture of open jaws and fangs suddenly reminded him with considerable force of his nerve racking brush with the beisa oryx.
After his alarming experience with the beisa oryx, the Count was not eager to take foolhardy risks.
This was the first time he had shot from a running chariot, and his first three arrows flew wide of the mark, as the chariot careered into the herd of racing oryx.
There was never any rain on Oryx, and the reason for that anomaly also prevented colorings in the sky at dawn and sunset.
If he were a Craker he’d have to apologize to it – I’m sorry I stepped on you, Child of Oryx, please forgive my clumsiness.
The talk was of the Crakers – this is what Oryx called them – and of how they were doing.
Even introduced species like African oryx, a fivehundred-pound antelope from the Kalahari region, flourished here by the thousands.
Something huge and fierce and implacable advancing through the light, very far away in the folded space within the shrine but rapidly growing closer, stooping toward him as a lammergeyer stoops through leagues of air to snatch an oryx grazing on a mountain crag.