duiker

名词 n.
/ˈdaɪkə/    /ˈdaɪkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily.
    — Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it).

词形变化

duikers plural duyker alternative

词源

Borrowed from Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”), from Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere. Piecewise doublet of ducker.
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