Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or belonging to the genus Rucervus; having characteristics of Rucervus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rucervus, which includes the swamp deer of India.
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- adjective of or pertaining to the deer of the genus Rucervus.
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Examples
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In none of the rucervine forms is the bez-tine produced.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The next stage from the rusine to the cervine or elaphine type is the rucervine.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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We then come to the rusine type of three points only -- brow, tres, and royal tines, and of this number are also the spotted and hog deer of India, but the arrangement of the tines is different; and following the rusine type comes the rucervine, in which the tres and royal tines break out into points -- the tres-tine usually bifurcate, and the royal with two, three or more points.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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In this the tres-tine, as well as the royal tine, throw out branches, and in the normal rucervine type the tres and royal are equal as in Schomburgk's deer, but in the extreme type, _Panolia_ or _Rucervus Eldii_ of Burmah, the tres-tine is greatly developed, whilst the royal is reduced to a mere snag.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Professor Garrod has three phases of the rucervine type, which he calls the normal, the intermediate, and the extreme.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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1890 OW 1879 OW lyncine lynx W rucervine Indian macropine kangaroo swamp deer, etc.
ruzuzu commented on the word rucervine
Also see swamp-deer.
July 11, 2011