kudu
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 4
/ˈkuːduː/
(UK)
Definition of kudu
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
“I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.”
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Etymology
Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou.
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