Definition of Lesser kudu

1. Noun. A smaller variety of kudu.

Exact synonyms: Tragelaphus Imberbis
Generic synonyms: Koodoo, Koudou, Kudu

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lesser Kudu

lesser circulation
lesser cul-de-sac
lesser curvature of stomach
lesser duckweed
lesser evil
lesser evilism
lesser flamingo
lesser galangal
lesser hemlock
lesser horn of hyoid bone
lesser included offence
lesser included offense
lesser included offenses
lesser internal cutaneous nerve
lesser knapweed
lesser kudu (current term)
lesser multangular bone
lesser nothura
lesser nothuras
lesser occipital nerve
lesser of two evils
lesser omentum
lesser palatine artery
lesser palatine foramina
lesser palatine nerves
lesser pancreas
lesser panda
lesser pandas
lesser pelvis
lesser peritoneal cavity

Literary usage of Lesser kudu

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

1. Big Game Shooting on the Equator by Francis Arthur Dickinson (1908)
"Its horns are shorter, have a closer spiral and a smaller divergence than the greater kudu; the does carry no horns, as in that species. The lesser kudu ..."

2. Shots and Snapshots in British East Africa by Edward Bennet (1914)
"lesser kudu Strepsiceros imberbis. Swahili, Main n'dogo. ... The lesser kudu differs little from the greater except in point of size—he is only about 44 ..."

3. In Pursuit of the "Mad" Mullah: Service and Sport in the Somali Protectorate by Malcolm McNeill, Arthur Charles Hugh Dixon (1902)
"... of big game in Africa—Beneficial to sportsmen—Somali Protectorate regulations—Remarks on same—Proposed alterations—Greater and lesser kudu—Lion-shooting ..."

4. African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White (1913)
"XXIX THE lesser kudu ABOUT eight o'clock, the evening of our first day on the Swanee, the heat broke in a tropical downpour. We heard it coming from a long ..."

5. Big Game Shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"ANTELOPES lesser kudu The lesser kudu (Swahili,' Kungu') is very plentiful on the banks of ... The jumping powers of the lesser kudu are simply marvellous. ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"Accepting Thayer's hypothesis of concealment by the counteraction of light and shade and applying it to the lesser kudu, " it will be seep," he says, ..."

7. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"The Abyssinian specimens of Kudu got by Blanford seem to be examples of the Lesser Kudu of Blyth, easily distinguished from the Greater Kudu by the closed ..."

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