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5 letters · 6 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes
originVarious etymologies: * English habitational surname, from the town of Elland, in West Yorkshire, or from the village of Ealand, in North Lincolnshire, all of which derive from Old English ealand (“cultivated land by a river”). * Borrowed from Dutch Eland, a personal name composed of adel (“noble”) + land (“land”).
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