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Dusker vs Duiker - What's the difference?

dusker | duiker |

As an adjective dusker

is (dusk).

As a noun duiker is

one of any species of small antelope of the cephalophinae subfamily.

dusker

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (dusk)

    • dusk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
  • A darkish colour.
  • * Dryden
    • Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

    Synonyms

    * sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespers

    Antonyms

    * dawn

    Hyponyms

    * gloaming * twilight

    See also

    *

    See also

    * crepuscular

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
  • * , More Poems , XXXIII, lines 25-27
    • I see the air benighted
    And all the dusking dales,
    And lamps in England lighted,
  • To make dusk.
  • * Holland
    • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  • * Milton
    • A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

    Anagrams

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    duiker

    English

    (wikipedia duiker)

    Alternative forms

    * duyker

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of any species of small antelope of the Cephalophinae subfamily.

    • Derived terms

    (Species of duiker) * Abbott's duiker, Cephalophus spadix * Ader's duiker, Cephalophus adersi * bay duiker, Cephalophus dorsalis * black duiker, Cephalophus niger * black-fronted duiker, Cephalophus nigrifrons * blue duiker, Philantomba monticola * common duiker, Sylvicapra grimmia * Brooke's duiker, Cephalophus brookei * Harvey's duiker, Cephalophus harveyi * Jentink's duiker, Cephalophus jentinki * Maxwell's duiker, Philantomba maxwellii * Ogilby's duiker, Cephalophus ogilbyi * Peters's duiker, Cephalophus callipygus * red-flanked duiker, Cephalophus rufilatus * red forest duiker, Cephalophus natalensis * Ruwenzori duiker, Cephalophus rubidis * Weyns's duiker, Cephalophus weynsi * white-bellied duiker, Cephalophus leucogaster * yellow-backed duiker, Cephalophus sylvicultor * zebra duiker, Cephalophus zebra ----