Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Cervidæ or subgenus of Cervus, containing the large East Indian stags, with cylindric antlers forked at the top and developing a brow-tine, and a tuft of hair on the hind legs; the rusine deer.
- noun [lowercase] A species of this genus, especially R. hippelaphus.
- noun The lemon-grass or ginger-grass, Andropogon Schœanthus, yielding rusa-oil.
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Introduced species, such as rusa deer Cervus timorensis and wild boar Sus scrofa, as well as feral domestic animals including horses and water buffalo, form important prey species for the Komodo monitor.
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The principal management problem is depletion of Komodo monitor prey stocks, such as rusa deer and wild boar, through predation by feral dogs and poaching.
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There are two species of deer known in Borneo; one of them, the "rusa,"
The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850
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News on the Move » La blogosfera rusa critica la censura a South Park
Global Voices in English » Russia: Channel “2×2″ censors Putin episode of South Park 2009
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Global Voices in English » Russia: Channel “2×2″ censors Putin episode of South Park 2009
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The Spanish potato salad called ensaladilla rusa was one of the rejects—it took too long to dice the potatoes.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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The Spanish potato salad called ensaladilla rusa was one of the rejects—it took too long to dice the potatoes.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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So I've tentatively extrapolated that gamma, delta, iota, chi, and rho are *cemla (cf. gimel), *talta (cf. daleth), *eiata (cf. yod), *χei and *rusa (cf. resh).
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Other species include muntjac Muntiacus muntjak, lesser mouse deer Tragulus javanicus, rusa deer Cervus timorensis and wild boar Sus scrofa.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009
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Referring to the Jewish community (which Coni identified as the colectivdad rusa, the Russian community), he noted that although it consisted of 28,436 persons, constituting the third largest immigrant group in the city of Buenos Aires, they were not listed as operating any major orphanage (Coni, 1918).
chained_bear commented on the word rusa
"Stephen found to his stupefaction that he could walk through a herd of rusa, pushing his way where they stood thick, as though he were one of themselves."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 227
March 5, 2008