Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small Eurasian deer (Dama dama) having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white in summer and broad, flattened antlers in the male.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A deer of the genus Dama: so called from its fallow or yellowish color spotted with white.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A European species of deer (
Cervus dama ), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
ruminant mammal (Dama dama) belonging to the familyCervidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small Eurasian deer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Obsolete fallow, reddish- or brownish-yellow, from Middle English falow, falwe, from Old English fealu; see pel- in Indo-European roots.]
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