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duyker

duyker is the alternative spelling of duiker.

Meaning of duiker

Noun

duiker (plural duikers)

  1. Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily.
    • Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it).1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 65

Forms of duyker

pluralduykers

Questions about duyker

What is duyker the alternative spelling of?
Duyker is the alternative spelling of duiker.

Words near duyker in the dictionary

  1. duxelle
  2. duxelles
  3. duxes
  4. Duxford
  5. Duyan-duyan
  6. duyker
  7. duykerbok
  8. duykerboks
  9. duykers
  10. Duyn
  11. Duyns

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