Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small Chinese musk-deer, Hydropotes inermis, of somewhat aquatic habits.
- noun The African water-chevrotain. This is a traguloid, quite different from the foregoing.
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Examples
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On the other hand it has large canine tusks like the muntjacs, deerlets, and water-deer, and, as these are all aberrant forms of the true Cervidae, there is no reason why the same character should not be developed in the antelopes.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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In India we have to deal exclusively with the _Plesiometacarpi_, our nearest members of the other division being the Chinese water-deer (_Hydropotes inermis_), and probably _Capreolus pygargus_ from Yarkand, the horns of a roebuck in velvet attached to a strip of skin having been brought down by the Mission to that country in 1873-74.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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