klipspringer

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klipspringer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Klipspringer \Klip"spring`er\, n. [D., lit., cliff springer.]
     (Zool.)
     A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus
     ), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag
     to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi.
     [Written also klippspringer.]
     [1913 Webster]