Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The striped antelope, Antilope strepsiceros or Strepsiceros kudu, found in many parts of Africa from Abyssinia to Cape Colony.
- noun One of the bushbucks, Tragelaphus selousi, which inhabits the swampy regions of central and eastern Africa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large South African antelope (
Strepsiceros kudu ). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called alsonellut .
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- noun dated Alternative form of
kudu .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush
Etymologies
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Examples
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There we had nobler game to follow — wildebeest and hartebeest, impala, and now and then a koodoo.
Prester John 2005
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Once or twice a big buck — an eland or a koodoo — broke cover, and at the sight of me went off snorting down the slope.
Prester John 2005
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It is of a grayish-brown color, and has horns twisted in the manner of a koodoo, but much smaller, and with
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The koodoo, or tolo, seemed smaller, too, than those we had been accustomed to see.
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It was marked with narrow white bands across the body, exactly like those of the koodoo, and had a black patch of more than a handbreadth on the outer side of the fore-arm.
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The koodoo is remarkably fond of the green stalks of this kind of millet.
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The Hottentots eagerly devour the marrow of the koodoo and other antelopes raw, as a matter of course.
Walking 1969
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The Hottentots eagerly devour the marrow of the koodoo and other antelopes raw, as a matter of course.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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As he raced with the speed of a koodoo through the plantation he saw the glow of fire ahead and heard the moan of some terrible monster near him.
Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle
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Our padre, Father Mathews, presented us with a very fine pair of koodoo horns which he picked up at a store while we were here.
The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer
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