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brocket
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brock·et  (brkt)
n.
1. A two-year-old red deer with its first horns.
2. Any of several small South American deer of the genus Mazama, having short unbranched horns.

[Middle English broket, from Old French brocard, from broque, animal's horn, dialectal variant of broche, spit; see broach1.]

brocket [ˈbrɒkɪt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small deer of the genus Mazama, of tropical America, having small unbranched antlers
[from Anglo-French broquet, from broque horn, from Vulgar Latin brocca (unattested); see broach1]
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Noun1.brocket - small South American deer with unbranched antlersbrocket - small South American deer with unbranched antlers
cervid, deer - distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
genus Mazama, Mazama - brockets
2.brocket - male red deer in its second year
Cervus elaphus, red deer, wapiti, American elk, elk - common deer of temperate Europe and Asia


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When I went to Argentina, I took my Todd Ramirez 7x57 along for Brocket deer and capybara.
That left Argentina's fertile savannah to an assortment of indigenous brocket deer, guanacos, peccaries, and the continent's only major predator--our familiar puma.
Howler monkeys, foxes, agouti, paea, tapir, red brocket deer, jaguarundi, raccoon, and collared peccary are also found in the park, but are rarely seen during a short visit.
 
 
 
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