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Okapi

2 stages from Mbuti to English.

Today it means a forest-dwelling mammal related to the giraffe, native to the Congo Basin
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Stage 1 of 2
okapi
Mbuti · ancient
"okapi"
the Congolese name for the forest-dwelling relative of the giraffe
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Stage 2 of 2
okapi
English · 1900s
"a forest-dwelling relative of the giraffe"
adopted as the elusive animal was formally described by Western science
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