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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The wheatear or stonechat, Saxicola œnanthe. Also whiterump, white-arse, wittol, etc. See cut under wheatear.
  • noun A humming-bird of the genus Urochroa (wmich see, with cut).
  • noun The white-tailed deer of North America, Cariacus virginianus: in distinction from the blacktail (C.macrotis). See white-tailed deer (under white-tailed), and cut under Cariacus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The Virginia deer.
  • noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The wheatear.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A deer, Odocoileus virginianus, family Cervidae, perhaps the most popular game animal in North America.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun common North American deer; tail has a white underside
  • noun common North American deer; tail has a white underside

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  • surrendering deer

    April 3, 2009