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klipspringer

/klip-spring-er/US // ˈklɪpˌsprɪŋ ər //UK // (ˈklɪpˌsprɪŋə) //

克利普斯普林格

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small, agile African antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, of mountainous regions from the Cape of Good Hope to Ethiopia.

Examples

  • I had just crossed it where the path dipped, when, looking up, there stood a klipspringer gazing at me.

  • A little klipspringer was brought to us, so young that for the first few weeks it was fed with milk from a baby's bottle.

  • The klipspringer represents a genus by itself, the various local forms not being worthy of more than racial distinction.

  • He dashed through the stream and ran up the shelf like a klipspringer after me.

  • They had made a sad mistake about the powers of that klipspringer.