Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A medium-sized deer (Cervus nippon) native to East Asia but widely naturalized elsewhere, having a light to dark brown often spotted coat, a white rump patch, and antlers in the male.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of deer found in Japan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A traditional
Bangladeshi hanging basket - noun Cervus nippon, a deer found in the forests of
East Asia
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Japanese sika deer _ (Cervus sika_), both of which are doing well.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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If my understanding is correct, the term "sika" is used to refer to imported Japanese deer here in the states.
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So, shouldn't we simply refer to the deer as "sika" or am I missing something here like a species designation?
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So, shouldn't we simply refer to the deer as "sika" or am I missing something here like a species designation?
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If my understanding is correct, the term "sika" is used to refer to imported Japanese deer here in the states.
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Whistling sika deer in the UK have confused local mountain rescue teams, who have been searching for humans who may be in harm, after they heard the sounds of what they thought were emergency whistles being blown.
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P.S. I think bluecollarkid is right, but if you just said sika to me I probably wouldn't remember that it's a deer.
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I'm not absolute certain about this (and against my better judgment I continue on) but isn't "sika deer" redundant?
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The guy put a sika deer in the tiger pen, watched the tiger eat the deer, then, when other people noticed, freaked out and shot the tiger.
misdirected outrage 2009
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I'm not absolute certain about this (and against my better judgment I continue on) but isn't "sika deer" redundant?
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