Library / English Dictionary

KOODOO

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush

Synonyms:

koodoo; koudou; kudu

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("koodoo" is a kind of...):

antelope (graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "koodoo"):

greater kudu; Tragelaphus strepsiceros (a variety of kudu)

lesser kudu; Tragelaphus imberbis (a smaller variety of kudu)

Holonyms ("koodoo" is a member of...):

genus Strepsiceros; genus Tragelaphus; Strepsiceros; Tragelaphus (African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks)

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