kudu
nounUK /ˈkuːduː/
Etymology Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou.
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A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu).
- Martha, on a hot, wet, steamy afternoon, had spent two hours wriggling on her stomach through the undergrowth to reach a point where she might shoot a big koodoo that was grazing in a corner of the Hundred Acres.1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 72:
- I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.2004 December 4, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian:
- Derived terms
- kudu berry