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kob

[kob, kohb]
–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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