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kudu

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ku⋅du

[koo-doo]
–noun
a large African antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, the male of which has large corkscrewlike horns.
Also, koodoo.


Origin:
1770–80; < Afrik koedoe < Khoikhoi ǂkudu
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ku·du also koo·doo   (kōō'dōō)   
n.   pl. kudu or ku·dus also koodoo or koo·doos
Either of two large African antelopes (Tragelaphus strepsiceros or T. imberbis) having a brownish coat with narrow, white vertical stripes and, in the male, long, spirally curved horns.

[Afrikaans koedoe, from Xhosa i-quda, i-qudu, perhaps from Nama kudu.]
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