Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large deer, Elaphurus davidianus, of northern China, remarkable for the strong development and branching of the brow-antler and an inverse reduction of the other antlers, but otherwise related to the red deer and other species of the genus Cervus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A species of deer (
Elaphurus Davidianus ) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Elaphurus davidianus, a
Chinese deer with unusualantlers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds
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