Etymology

Salt's dik-dik

Today it means: Madoqua saltiana, a small antelope found in parts of Africa. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Henry Salt, the first European to acknowledge the species in Abyssinia in the early 19th century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.