kudu
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- noun
- /ˈkuːduː/
- South African
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kudu
- The local wildlife reserve is home to many animals, including the elegant kudu known for its striking white stripes.
- kudu bull
- greater kudu
But it's high gain because when you do get something, you bring down a kudu, then you've got a serious amount of meat.
- But it's high gain because when you do get something, you bring down a kudu, then you've got a serious amount of meat.
- And so we had to carve a kudu out of the herd and run them to exhaustion, and then we would club them to death.
Examples
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Huge herds of kudu - greater kudu and lesser kudu.
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But it's high gain because when you do get something, you bring down a kudu, then you've got a serious amount of meat.
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Huge herds of kudu - greater kudu and lesser kudu.
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The herds of wildebeest and kudu, impala and warthog, elephants and lions run free.
Blog text (20) -
He knew that couldn't be true, for he had fleeting memories of playing with his brothers and sisters and of stalking the kudu and the bongo on the tree-covered mountain where he grew up.
Fiction book (1994) -
While on safari, we spotted a magnificent kudu with twisted horns grazing peacefully in the grass.
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During my trip to Africa, I was fortunate enough to see a kudu standing majestically under the shade of a tree.
Synonyms
A large African antelope with long twisted horns
A large African antelope with long twisted horns and white stripes
Compounds
- South African
A South African shrub with a thick water-storing stem and pink and white flowers after its leaves fall
- South African
A small African animal like a deer with white stripes and spiral horns that lives in dry woodlands
- South African
A large African antelope with long spiral horns and white stripes on its body
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word kudu comes from a local African word and entered English through Afrikaans, where people used that name for the animal. That's why English keeps the same name for the large antelope with long, spiraled horns and white body stripes.