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

  • A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.
  • The water chevrotain.

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  • noun largest chevrotain; of marshy areas of west Africa

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