Zool. A name applied, after Buffon, to the KOODOO (Antilope strepsiceros), to which word it is apparently related.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), III. 80. The second anomalous animal of the goat-kind, Mr. Buffon calls the Condoma. It is supposed to be equal in size to the largest stag, but with hollow horns … with varied flexures.
1777. G. Forster, Voy. round W., I. 89. The Coodoo … from whence the name of M. de Buffon’s Condoma is probably derived.
1812. Smellie & Wood, trans. Buffon’s Nat. Hist., VIII. 255. Our condoma was very gentle.
