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Mammal related to the giraffe
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okapi
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Word definitions for okapi in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
okapi \o*ka"pi\, n. [Native name on the borders of Belgian Congo, possibly the same word as Mpongwe okapo lean.] A peculiar mammal ( Okapia johnstoni ) closely related to the giraffe, discovered in the deep forests of Belgian Congo in 1900. It is smaller ...
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.