duikern.1
/ˈdʌɪkə/, U.S. /ˈdaɪkər/, South African English /ˈdaɪkə/, /ˈdeɪkə/ A small South African antelope, Cephalopus mergens, so called from its habit of plunging through the bushes when pursued.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Cephalophinae (duiker)
duiker1777
diving goat1786
Maxwell's antelope1827
coquetoon1846
Maxwell's duiker1905
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 84 The duyker or diving antelope..is not yet sufficiently known.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches 23 And the duiker at my tread Sudden lifts his startled head.
1895 Longman's Mag. July 263 Dainty steinboks and timid duykers..began to feed.
1910 J. T. McCutcheon In Afr. xv. 255 The duiker..is small, with dark complexion, and goes through the high grass in a way that strongly suggests the diving of a porpoise at sea.
2002 M. Burton & R. Burton Internat. Wildlife Encycl. (ed. 3) I. 726/1 Duikers are small antelopes with short legs, pointed hooves and arched backs. The common, or gray, duiker, Sylvicapra grimmia, stands about 2 feet (60 cm) at the shoulder.
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duiker-bok n. now rare = main sense.
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1786 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) II. 224 As for the duyker-bok, or diving goat, I have only had a single glimpse of it.
1889 A. R. Wallace Darwinism viii. 220 The duyker-bok and the rhoode-bok are wary bush-haunters, and have no marks but the small white patch behind.
1905 in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1907) 20 518 Natives call it the ‘antelope fly’, and state that it bites principally the duyker-bok (Cephalophus Grimmii).
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duikern.2
/ˈdʌɪkə/, U.S. /ˈdaɪkər/, South African English /ˈdaɪkə/, /ˈdeɪkə/ South African.
Any of several cormorants of the genus Phalacrocorax, esp. P. carbo.
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1838 D. Moodie tr. J. van Riebeck's Jrnl. in Record i. 13 The yacht returned from Robben Island, bringing about an hundred black birds, called duikers, (cormorants) of a good flavour.
1856 C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami ii. 16 The way in which the ‘duikers’ (cormorants and shags) obtain their food is not uninteresting.
1950 L. G. Green At Daybreak for Isles iii. 129 Besides the trek-duiker and white-breasted duiker, there is a species on the islands known as the bank duiker... The reed duiker..also nests on the islands; but this is really a fresh-water bird.
1950 L. G. Green At Daybreak for Isles iii. 29 The shy duikers, the cormorants that can only be approached on their nests or in the darkness.
1988 J. A. Brown Mousanzia 1 ‘Keep your eyes peeled for duikers, Black Mo’... Soon the dark-winged birds would be leaving their roosts on the rocky ledges of Seal Island.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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