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name
The station code of Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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noun
An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
an orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Kobus kob
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Broader terms: waterbuck
History
Probably from Kanuri kob (“antelope”) or another related Central Sudanic form.
From Afrikaans kob, from Dutch kobbe (“fish, goby, lumpfish”).
Across languages
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