duiker
/dahy-ker/US // ˈdaɪ kər //UK // (ˈdaɪˌkə) //
杜克尔,斗牛士,杜克
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural dui·kers, dui·ker.
- : any of several small African antelopes of the Cephalophus, Sylvicapra, and related genera, the males and often the females having short, spikelike horns: some are endangered.
Examples
Upon reaching the road, it stopped, and looked at me, and I then saw that it was a duiker.
They are all small, the dik-dik being scarcely larger than a rabbit, and they are divided into as many subspecies as the duiker.
In fact, it gets its Dutch name for that reason, duiker bok, meaning "diving buck" in Dutch.
The duiker is another little antelope that one meets frequently in the grassy places of East Africa.
The banded duiker (C. doriae) from West Africa is golden brown with black transverse bands on the back and loins.
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