koodoo

«koodoo» in Mova's school dictionary: Kipling's spelling of kudu: a large African antelope; the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a koodoo, koodoos – Kipling's spelling of «kudu»)

meaning for a pupil

1) Kipling's spelling of kudu: a large African antelope; the male has long spiral (twisted) horns, and both have thin white stripes on a grey-brown body. tree →

2) There are two kinds, the greater kudu and the lesser kudu. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Just So Stories («How the Leopard Got His Spots») the Giraffe, the Zebra, the Eland and the Koodoo live on the sandy-yellow High Veldt and later hide in the stripy, blotchy shadows of the forest, and Kipling's spelling is «Koodoo». The true reason for their stripes is camouflage that helps them hide from predators, built over a long time by evolution, not a story. Today we write «kudu».

examples

• The koodoo hid among the stripy shadows of the forest. tree →
• A kudu has long twisted horns. tree →
• We saw a greater kudu at the safari park. tree →
• Kipling spelled kudu as «koodoo». tree →
• The kudu's thin white stripes help it hide among trees. tree →
• Lions and leopards hunt kudu in Africa. tree →

note

Modern spelling is «kudu» («KOO-doo»); «koodoo» is old. Plural: kudus or kudu (same as singular).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «koodoo» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.