Definition of Dik-dik

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

Generic synonyms: Antelope
Group relationships: Genus Madoqua, Madoqua

Definition of Dik-dik

1. Noun. 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dik-dik

diisopromine
diisopropyl
diisopropyl-fluorophosphatase
diisopropyl fluorophosphate
diisopropyl iminodiacetic acid
diisoquinoline
diisoquinolines
diisotactic
dijet
dijets
dijudicant
dijudicants
dijudicate
dijudication
dijudications
dik-dik (current term)
dik-diks
dika
dika bread
dika nut
dikaryon
dikaryotic
dikas
dikast
dikasts
dikdik
dikdiks
diked
diker

Literary usage of Dik-dik

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Records of Big Game: With Their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions by Rowland Ward (1899)
"The first of these is allied to Salt's dik-dik, but is of smaller size ; it inhabits the ... Phillips's dik-dik, which also occurs in Northern Somaliland, ..."

2. Seventeen Trips Through Somaliland and a Visit to Abyssinia: With by Harald G. C. Swayne (1903)
"It appears to be found in the localities frequented by the Gol Ass. In fact both have been shot indiscriminately by sportsmen under the name Dik-Dik, ..."

3. Somaliland: Being an Account of Two Expeditions Into the Far Interior by Charles Victor Alexander Peel (1900)
"Colour: body same as Gunther's dik-dik, but has slightly red-fawn-coloured sides, but not so red nor so much of it as in Phillip's dik-dik. ..."

4. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1891)
"The above list looks rather imposing, but with the exception of lion, Gazella naso, and dik-dik, the largest number of any one animal I shot was three, ..."

5. Big Game Shooting by Horatio Gordon Hutchinson (1905)
"Gunther's Dik-Dik (Madoqua ... Major Cotton gives the weight of a Salt's Dik-Dik as 8 Ibs. THE ROYAL ANTELOPE One ..."

6. In Pursuit of the "Mad" Mullah: Service and Sport in the Somali Protectorate by Malcolm McNeill, Arthur Charles Hugh Dixon (1902)
"There was but little to be seen—only some dik dik and an occasional ... There were two distinct varieties of dik dik here, one being the ..."

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