dikkop
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| —n | |
| (South African) Also called: stone curlew any of several brownish shore birds of the family Burhinidae, esp Burhinus oedicnemus, having a large head and eyes: order Charadriiformes | |
| [from Afrikaans, from dik thick + kop head] | |
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Dikkop
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