Definitions for addax

addax ad·dax

Spelling: [ad-aks]
IPA: /ˈæd æks/

Addax is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in addax (aaddx).

Definitions for addax

noun

  1. a large, pale-colored antelope, Addax nasomaculatus, of North Africa, with loosely spiraled horns.

Origin of addax

From Latin, dating back to 1685-95, presumably

Examples for addax

addax, ad′aks, n. a species of large antelope found in Africa, with long twisted horns.

The ordinary height of the addax is three feet seven or eight inches, and the horns are almost exactly alike in the two sexes.

In this desert region is found the addax, the rarest of Sudan antelopes.

That the strepsiceros of Pliny, or the addax of the Africans, is the antelope.

The wide-spread hoofs of the addax antelope enable it to travel over sand at a great pace.

Unlike the addax, it is gregarious in its habits, and lives in large herds.

Word Value for addax
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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