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definition
Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily.
Examples of duikers in a Sentence
Duikers are animals of small or medium size, usually frequenting thick forest.
The duikers, or duikerboks (Cephalophus), of Africa, which range in size from a large hare to a fallow-deer, typify the subfamily Cephalophinae, characterized by the spike-like horns of the bucks, the elongated aperture of the face-glands, the naked muzzle, the relatively short tail, and the square-crowned upper molars; lateral hoofs being present.
In the duikers themselves the single pair of horns is set in the midst of a tuft of long hairs, and the face-gland opens in a long naked line on the side of the face above the muzzle.
They range in size from the tiny duikers to the huge cape buffalo.