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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large deer (Axis axis) native to South Asia, having a brown coat with white spots.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin axis, a kind of spotted Indian quadruped mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Historia naturalis.]
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