klipspringer
a small, agile African antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, of mountainous regions from the Cape of Good Hope to Ethiopia.
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How to use klipspringer in a sentence
I had just crossed it where the path dipped, when, looking up, there stood a klipspringer gazing at me.
A Frontier Mystery | Bertram MitfordA little klipspringer was brought to us, so young that for the first few weeks it was fed with milk from a baby's bottle.
Home Life on an Ostrich Farm | Annie MartinThe 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.
Prester John | John BuchanThey had made a sad mistake about the powers of that klipspringer.
The Young Yagers | Mayne Reid
British Dictionary definitions for klipspringer
/ (ˈklɪpˌsprɪŋə) /
a small agile antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, inhabiting rocky regions of Africa south of the Sahara
Origin of klipspringer
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