† condoman.
Zoology.
A name applied, after Buffon, to the kudu n. ( Antilope strepsiceros), to which word it is apparently related.
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 80 The second anomalous animal of the goat-kind, Mr. Buffon calls the Condoma. It is supposed to be equal in size to the largest stag, but with hollow horns..with varied flexures.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 89 The Coodoo..from whence the name of M. de Buffon's Condoma is probably derived.
1812 W. Smellie & W. Wood tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VIII. 255 Our condoma was very gentle.
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