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kob

noun

  1. an orange-brown African antelope (Kobus kob) whose habitat extends from Senegal eastward to Ethiopia, having lyre-shaped horns in the male
L1422791 on Wikidata ↗

noun

  1. kabeljou, a large South African sciaenid food fish
L1422879 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kɒb/

name

  1. The station code of Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong.

noun

Etymology: From Afrikaans kob, from Dutch kobbe (“fish, goby, lumpfish”).

  1. Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.