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- English Word Komenic Definition Of or pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from meconic acid.
- English Word Komtok Definition An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.
- English Word Kon Definition To know. See Can, and Con.
- English Word Konite Definition See Conite.
- English Word Konze Definition A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face.
- English Word Koodoo Definition A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut.
- English Word Kookoom Definition The oryx or gemsbok.
- English Word Koolokamba Definition A west African anthropoid ape (Troglodytes koolokamba, or T. Aubryi), allied to the chimpanzee and gorilla, and, in some respects, intermediate between them.
- English Word Koolslaa Definition See Coleslaw.
- English Word Koord Definition See Kurd.
- English Word Koordish Definition See Kurdish.
- English Word Koorilian Definition Same as Kurilian.
- English Word Kopeck Definition A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents.
- English Word Koran Definition The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.
- English Word Korin Definition The gazelle.
- English Word Korrigum Definition A West African antelope (Damalis Senegalensis), allied to the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe on the outside of the legs above the knees.
- English Word Kosmos Definition See Cosmos.
- English Word Kotow Definition The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings.
- English Word Kotow Definition To perform the kotow.
- English Word Kotowed Definition of Kotow