Wiktionary
n. One of any species of small antelope of the Cephalophinae subfamily.
Wikipedia
A duiker is a small to medium-sized brown in colour antelope native to Sub-Saharan Africa, very predominant in Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Lesotho; Malawi; Mali; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; Somalia; South Africa; South Sudan; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Togo; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe. They are found in heavily wooded areas. The 22 extant species, including three sometimes considered to be subspecies of the other species, form the subfamily Cephalophinae.
Usage examples of "duiker".
The Wickans rode at either side, desperately trying to contain the human river, and Duiker could now see among them soldiers in the uniform of the Aren City Garrison joining in the effort.
Duiker suspected that the rebel High Mage had set that fire himself, destroying anything of potential use to Coltaine before fleeing through whatever paths his warren offered him.
There were gemsbok and eland head to complete the display of larger antelope and next to them, in a cluster of five heads, were the smaller variety of buck: grey duiker, klipspringer, steenbok, reebok, and springbok.
Duiker building and the Van den Hoyst building next it, Observe that little line running down into the well of the Duiker building, coming to the dividing wall between the courtyards of the Duiker and the Van den Hoyst.
GUESS the Duiker and Van den Hoyst buildings both ranked as sky-scrapers when they were built, but modern structures have dwarfed them so that they are quite inconspicuous, now.
Behind a palisade of split bamboo to protect the lawns and gardens from the attentions of the duiker and steenbok and kudu, it glowed like a green jewel in the sombre brown of the hills.
The few duiker and steenbok that had once roamed our plain had smelled the coming of the Whites and the fleeing Kung, and had run away.
Duiker recalled him wella squat, hairless, immeasurably ugly sapper, his eye thin slashes, his nose a flattened spread of angles and crooks.
And the porcupines and the bushbuck and the duikers will follow them in.
Coltaine was leading his column to Dryj Spring, and despite the headstart, Duiker expected to rejoin him well before then.
I was expecting some grizzled old veteran who had a wealth of stories to tell, who had maybe even seen a civet cat or a duiker before they became extinct.
Duiker It had been a week since Duiker came upon the trail left by the refugees from Caron Tepasi.
Moments later List and Duiker reached the stone edifice and clambered up on its ragged but wide top.
The man's neck was no thicker than that of one of the forest duikers which were Pirri's usual prey.
He saw graceful golden brown impala with snowy bellies and spindly back-curved horns, a dainty blue duiker as big as a fox terrier with pricked-up ears and bright button eyes.