A large white antelope with spiral horns native to the Sahara Desert, known for its ability to survive in extremely arid environments.
From Arabic 'addāks' or 'addax'; the word entered European languages through Arabic-speaking naturalists and desert traders describing North African wildlife.
The addax is so adapted to the Sahara's brutality that it can go years without drinking water—it was hunted nearly to extinction, and now fewer than 100 remain in the wild, making it one of the rarest hoofed mammals on Earth.
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