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kob

  [kob, kohb]
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–noun
an African antelope, Kobus kob, related to the puku and the lechwe.
Origin:
1765–75; said to be < Wolof koba
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kob   (kŏb, kōb)   
n.  An orange-brown African antelope (Kobus kob) of Gambia east to Uganda and Ethiopia, having lyre-shaped horns in the male.

[Wolof.]
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Kob

Kob\, Koba \Ko"ba\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of African antelopes of the genus Kobus, esp. the species Kobus sing-sing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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