Koodoo

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of kudu. alt-of, alternative, dated

    "For instance, the very vase from which we were then drinking had on one side a most spirited drawing of men, apparently white in colour, attacking a bull-elephant with spears, while on the reverse was a picture, not quite so well done, of a hunter shooting an arrow at a running antelope, I should say from the look of it either an eland or a koodoo."

  2. 2
    either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush wordnet

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koudoukudukudu

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"For instance, the very vase from which we were then drinking had on one side a most spirited drawing of men, apparently white in colour, attacking a bull-elephant with spears, while on the reverse was a picture, not quite so well done, of a hunter shooting an arrow at a running antelope, I should say from the look of it either an eland or a koodoo."

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