1. One of two large antelopes in Africa whose coat is brown and with horns which are ridged and curving outwardly: The children compared the elands in their biology lesson to the hartebeests noticing that the hartebeests' horns seemed to be tuning in an outward manner.
2. Etymology: from Dutch hartebeest, "deer"; from Middle Dutch hert "deer" + beest, "beast"; from Old French beste, "beast".