Dik-dik Definition

dĭkdĭk
noun
Any of several very small antelopes (genus Madoqua) found in E Africa.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Dik-dik

Noun

Singular:
dik-dik
Plural:
dik-diks

Origin of Dik-dik

  • Imitative of the sound made by the animal when alarmed.

    From Wiktionary

  • Of East African origin, perhaps imitative of its cry

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Dik-dik Sentence Examples

  • Among the varieties are the greater and lesser kudu (both rather rare); the duiker, gemsbuck, hartebeest, gerenuk (the most common - it has long thin legs and a camel-like neck); klipspringer, found on the high plateaus as well as in the lower districts; and the dik-dik, the smallest of the antelopes, its weight rarely exceeding so lb, common in the low countries and the foothills.

  • It is a catholic feeder which will take mammals the size of a dik-dik but it eats termites.

  • Generalized features are also displayed by the Oligocene Hypisodus, which in its short skull and large orbits presents a curious approximation to the African dik-dik antelopes of the genus Madoqua (see Antelope).

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