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.]

 

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