African animal
The crossword clue "African animal" is answered by OKAPI, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 1976; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OKAPI
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OKAPI answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 1976; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- GIRAFFE (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for OKAPI
Every other clue in this collection answered by OKAPI, most used first.
- Giraffe relative - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
- Giraffe's cousin - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Giraffe cousin - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Giraffe's kin - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Giraffe kin - used 21 times, most recently in 2016
- Relative of a giraffe - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Animal with striped legs - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- African ruminant - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Giraffe's relative - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Cousin of a giraffe - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Giraffe's striped kin - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Relative of the giraffe - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- African antelope - ELAND, used 189 times
- Andean animal - LLAMA, used 93 times
- African language group - BANTU, used 78 times
- Pack animal - BURRO, used 60 times
- Ranch animal - STEER, used 58 times
- North African capital - TUNIS, used 55 times
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