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okapi

[ oh-kah-pee ]

noun

, plural o·ka·pis, (especially collectively) o·ka·pi.
  1. an African mammal, Okapia johnstoni, closely related to and resembling the giraffe, but smaller and with a much shorter neck.


okapi

/ əʊˈkɑːpɪ /

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of okapi1

1900; < Bambuba (Mvu’ba), a Central Sudanic language of the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo (or < a related Pygmy dial.), according to English Africanist Harry Johnston (1858–1927), author of the first zoological descriptions of the animal
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Word History and Origins

Origin of okapi1

C20: from a Central African word
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Example Sentences

Similarly, air that Lynggaard vacuumed from the okapi pen contained DNA from 23 vertebrate species.

The okapi shot a dirty look at biologist Christina Islas Lynggaard.

I 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.

But, to their keen disappointment, no okapi made its appearance at the drinking-place that night.

So the meek okapi had added a few stripes on his legs, like a zebra, just to make him less like the scornful antelope.

An okapi is worth a hundred other animals of any kind that one can name.

The Okapi lives in pairs in the deepest recesses of the forest.

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