impoon

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impoon - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Impoon \Im*poon"\, n. (Zool.)
     The duykerbok.
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  Duykerbok \Duy"ker*bok\, n. [D. duiker diver + bok a buck, lit.,
     diver buck. So named from its habit of diving suddenly into
     the bush.] (Zool.)
     A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); --
     called also impoon, and deloo.
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