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Striped-legged beast
Answer for the clue "Striped-legged beast ", 5 letters:
okapi
Alternative clues for the word okapi
- Animal with stripes
- Ituri Rainforest animal
- Long-tongued Congo critter
- Animal also called a forest giraffe
- African with zebralike legs
- Grazer with striped legs
- Approval given by a special number for ruminant
- Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs
- One of 60+ San Diego Zoo births
Word definitions for okapi in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
short-necked giraffe of central Africa, 1900, from the animal's name in Mbuba (Congo). Reported by English explorer Sir Harry Johnston (1858-1927).
Usage examples of okapi.
Williams was especially anxious to capture alive an okapi, one of the wiliest of African creatures, and Ki-Gor, Tembu George and Helene had agreed to lend a hand in the difficult task.
The wildebeests or elands or okapis are where they thought, in the numbers and condition they estimated.
Naked pelvises sat astride the ivory-colored spines of horses and mules, zebras and okapis, kudu and pronghorn.
They've agreed to let us keep a few of the major exhibits: the bongo and okapi, Ahmed of Marsabit, the record Nile perch, the last impala, the last cheetah.
And so he rushed from one side of the boat to the other while a team of twenty stout helladotheria, looking something like giant okapis, were hitched to the craft in preparation for its being hauled up the long rollered way to Muriah.