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Meaning of KLIPSPRINGER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Klip"spring`er\, n. [D., lit., cliff springer.]
(Zo["o]l.)
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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