kuduとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkuːduː/
• 韻: -uːduː

名詞

kudu (plural kudus or kudu)

1. A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu).
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 72:

     Martha, on a hot, wet, steamy afternoon, had spent two hours wriggling on her stomach through the undergrowth to reach a point where she might shoot a big koodoo that was grazing in a corner of the Hundred Acres.

   • 2004 December 4, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian:

     I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.

派生語

Further reading

• kudu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tragelaphus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies