Crossword clues for kudu
kudu
- Striped antelope
- Antelope with twisty horns
- Beast hunted by Hemingway in "Green Hills of Africa"
- Spiral-horned grazer
- African antelope with curvy horns
- Either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush
- African antelope with distinctive horns
- Large antelope
- Spiral-horned antelope
- Savanna grazer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Koodoo \Koo"doo\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large South African antelope ( Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut. [Written also kudu.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
African antelope, 1777, from Xosa-Kaffir iqudu.
Wiktionary
n. A large, striped, African antelope of the species (taxlink Tragelaphus imberbis species noshow=1) (the lesser kudu) or (taxlink Tragelaphus strepsiceros species noshow=1) (the greater kudu)
WordNet
Wikipedia
KUDU (91.9 FM, "91.9 KUDU") is a commercial radio station airing religious programming in Tok, Alaska. Owned by LifeTalk Radio Inc., KUDU broadcasts Bible teaching, inspirational messages, and Christian music.
A kudu is a type of antelope.
Kudu may also refer to:
- KUDU, a radio station
- Kudu Records, a sister label of CTI Records
- Kudu (restaurant), a chain of fast food restaurants based in Saudi Arabia
- Kudu, Russia, a selo (village) in Verkhnevilyuysky District, Sakha Republic
Kudu is a large fast food chain in Saudi Arabia. It was established in 1988 and has over 300 branches in Saudi Arabia and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. It is also available in Sudan, Jordan, Yemen, and Libya. The first branch opened in Riyadh on 16 April 1988 on 30th street. It mainly serves burgers and heavy sandwiches and Western-style breakfasts.
Usage examples of "kudu".
She and Gai bring warthog and kudu hides, porcupine quills, tortoise shells, ostrich eggs, a sharpening stone, an awl, two assagai blades, pots of Bantu clay.
Amongst the grey-green thorn trees and dense scrub goat and camel grazed in company with gazelle and gerenuk, oryx and greater kudu.
Well then, they are the most beautiful, fattest hornless kudu that I have ever seen.
I rode Burma Boy across the river in search of kudu and impala, the dogs panting through the bush on either side of me.
First I tried the low ground, but found nothing there but some old spoor of kudu, and a paauw which I shot.
This was an immense, hollowed senecio trunk with dried Kudu skin over its end.
The Baron saw Umman Kudu, the guard captain, appear in the doorway across the room, shake his head.
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.
By the time they arrived below the massive stone walls his clothing had dried, although his velskoen boots made of kudu skin were still damp.
Kudu had deserted the sky, and the opening of others during the night, he was surprised to discover that Mumga had never noticed these interesting facts, though she could tell to an inch just where the fattest grubworm should be hiding.
While amongst the mopani and masasa trees there was the occasional silver-grey flash of a running kudu, with his long corkscrew horns laid flat along his back.
And not just the big fivethe elephant, rhinoceros, leopard, lion, and cape buffalobut also predators and prey of every ilk: the Nile crocodile, hippo, cheetah, hyena, wildebeest, jackal, giraffe, zebra, waterbuck, kudu, impala, reedbuck, warthog, baboons.
The bows were of hard, elastic wood, bound with strips of green kudu hide which had been allowed to dry and shrink on the shaft until they were hard as iron.
Naked pelvises sat astride the ivory-colored spines of horses and mules, zebras and okapis, kudu and pronghorn.
In every thicket and thorn forest they found nervous kudu with spiral horns, and herds of bovine black buffalo, so numerous that they flattened the tangled bush when they stampeded.