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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
okapi is a noun meaning "similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs". It carries one recorded sense.
similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for okapi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.