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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several very small African antelopes of the genus Madoqua.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A small African antelope, Madaqua phillipsi.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small antelope of southern and eastern Africa having an elongated snout, a brown or grey/gray coat with a white belly, and an upright tuft on the crown.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua; the size of a large rabbit

Etymologies

  1. Of East African origin, perhaps imitative of its cry.

Examples

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  • “A few species, like the greater kudu and the Damara dik-dik have even benefited from bush encroachment.”

    Namibian savanna woodlands

  • “Two strictly endemic mammals are also found, the silver dik-dik (Madoqua piacentinii, VU) and the Somali golden mole (Chlorotalpa tytonis, CR).”

    Hobyo grasslands and shrublands

  • “Coffin clicked shut his phone and sat for a moment, staring at the stuffed, severed head of a dik-dik that smiled upon the wall.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Art Thief

  • “Monogamy—an ideal behavior in many human cultures—appears in nature among only a few species, such as the jackdaw, the dik-dik, and a few kinds of termites.”

    Simon & Schuster: Why We Believe What We Believe

  • “ARBITER: I don't believe he killed a deer at all because, first of all, a dik-dik is very tiny.”

    CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2003

  • “Suspicions pattered through Anna's mind on sharp little dik-dik hooves: Barnette colluding with Herm Thorton in the death of his brother, come to warn him, come for vengeance, come for information?”

    Hunting Season

  • “He was already gone, like a dik-dik in the jaws of a cheetah, past fear, past caring.”

    Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus

  • “Giraffe also lingered in the gorge, nibbling at the tops of the acacias, and sometimes small antelopes, the dik-dik and klipspringer, leaped across the rocky slopes.”

    Simon & Schuster: Ancestral Passions

  • “Then, leaving Royan in camp, he led his men, burdened with the coils of rope and the pole sections of the gantry, back up the pathway to the spot where he had abseiled down into the ravine to retrieve the carcass of the dik-dik.”

    The Seventh Scroll

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