Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small agile African antelope (Oreotragus oreotragus) having a speckled coat and rounded ears with black markings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pygmyantelope of South Africa, Oreotragus saltatrix or Nanotragus oreotragus, inhabiting the rocky fastnesses of the Cape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small, graceful South African antelope (
Nanotragus oreotragus ), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; -- called alsokainsi .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
antelope native to eastern and southernAfrica having a dense, brown,speckled coat.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You might meet an occasional "klipspringer" (an antelope in habits and appearance somewhat like the chamois), a wandering troop of baboons, and now and then a herd of eland in the more grassy areas.
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You might meet an occasional "klipspringer" (an antelope, in habits and appearance somewhat like the chamois), a wandering troop of baboons, and now and then a herd of eland in the more grassy areas.
Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) Percy Addleshaw 1891
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Louis's garrulous mother, Gerty, has flown up from South Africa to be our cook, and grills up tasty servings of klipspringer and gemsbok, which we wash down with Windhoek lagers, supposedly brewed to German purity rules.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I Richard Bangs 2011
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Something waves into view: a desert mirage, the likeness of something jinking towards us, like a klipspringer.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Something waves into view: a desert mirage, the likeness of something jinking towards us, like a klipspringer.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Louis's garrulous mother, Gerty, has flown up from South Africa to be our cook, and grills up tasty servings of klipspringer and gemsbok, which we wash down with Windhoek lagers, supposedly brewed to German purity rules.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I Richard Bangs 2011
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The fauna in the Swartberg and Cederberg protected areas reflects their location close to the fynbos-Karoo interface with species such as grysbok Raphicerus melanotis, grey rhebuck Pelea capreolus and klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus, steenbok Raphicerus campestris and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, as well as karoo species not usually found in mountain fynbos such as springbok Antidorcas marsupialus.
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The more open grasslands and heathlands contain fewer mammal species, with the klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus), sable antelope (Papio cynocephalus), eland (Taurotragus oryx) and hyraxes (Procavia capensis) being the most conspicuous.
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Populations of klipspringer have decreased in recent years in Simien National Park, possibly due to increased human activity.
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Large populations of several antelopes are present and include an estimated population of 1,500-2,000 of the endemic grey rhebok Pelea capreolus, 1,000 reedbuck Redunca arundinum, and approximately 2,000 eland Taurotragus oryx; also bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, blue duiker Cephalophus monticola, klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus and oribi Ourebia ourebi.
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