kudus

Noun

kudu (plural kudus or kudu)

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