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KUDU
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kudu mean?
• KUDU (noun)
The noun KUDU has 1 sense:
1. either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush
Familiarity information: KUDU used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("kudu" is a kind of...):
antelope (graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kudu"):
greater kudu; Tragelaphus strepsiceros (a variety of kudu)
lesser kudu; Tragelaphus imberbis (a smaller variety of kudu)
Holonyms ("kudu" is a member of...):
genus Strepsiceros; genus Tragelaphus; Strepsiceros; Tragelaphus (African antelopes: kudus; bongos; nyalas; bushbucks)
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