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Tag: Afrikaans word in English

Posted on April 30, 2014September 28, 2020

The legendary aardvark. First word in the dictionary?

Everyone knows the word, but how many have ever seen the animal? The definition medium-sized, nocturnal African mammal, Orycteropus afer, which has sparse hair, long…

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