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Definition of Duikers
1. duiker [n] - See also: duiker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duikers
Literary usage of Duikers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"A character peculiar to the duikers, and one by which they may always be ...
The duikers in general build are quite compact, with rather short legs and neck ..."
2. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"But the rest of the duikers are as a rule more pig-like in build, ... The somewhat
prominent and mobile nostrils in many of the duikers give the rather ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1890)
"As I have said, duikers are common practically to all Nyasa-land, ... Nyasa duikers,
I have noticed, vary very much in colour, ranging from a reddish brown, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Parts III. and IV. treat of the duikers (genus Cephalophus), and part IV., ...
The duikers, unlike most of the antelopes, live in brush and forests. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the duikers themselves the single pair of horns is set in the midst of a tuft
of long hairs, and the face-gland opens in a long naked line on the side of ..."
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