1.One of two large antelopes from Africa whose coat is light-brown or gray, the horns being twisted in a spiral fashion: Ted's children saw a video in their biology class that showed elands, about the size of elk, with their unique spiraled horns eating grass in their natural habitat.
2. Etymology: from Dutch eland, "elk"; from late Middle Dutche elen, elant; from German elen, elend; from Lithuanian ellenis, "stag".