okapi
an African mammal, Okapia johnstoni, closely related to and resembling the giraffe, but smaller and with a much shorter neck.
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Similarly, air that Lynggaard vacuumed from the okapi pen contained DNA from 23 vertebrate species.
DNA in air can help ID unseen animals nearby | Laura Allen | January 28, 2022 | Science News For StudentsThe okapi shot a dirty look at biologist Christina Islas Lynggaard.
DNA in air can help ID unseen animals nearby | Laura Allen | January 28, 2022 | Science News For StudentsI am bitterly sorry and disappointed to be obliged to say it, but I think there can be no doubt that we have lost that okapi.
With Airship and Submarine | Harry CollingwoodBut, to their keen disappointment, no okapi made its appearance at the drinking-place that night.
With Airship and Submarine | Harry CollingwoodSo the meek okapi had added a few stripes on his legs, like a zebra, just to make him less like the scornful antelope.
The Children's Book of London | Geraldine Edith Mitton
An okapi is worth a hundred other animals of any kind that one can name.
With Airship and Submarine | Harry CollingwoodThe okapi lives in pairs in the deepest recesses of the forest.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia | Frank Evers Beddard
British Dictionary definitions for okapi
/ (əʊˈkɑːpɪ) /
a ruminant mammal, Okapia johnstoni, of the forests of central Africa, having a reddish-brown coat with horizontal white stripes on the legs and small horns: family Giraffidae
Origin of okapi
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