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fallow deer

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fallow deer
n.
A small Eurasian deer (Dama dama) having a yellowish-red coat spotted with white in summer and broad, flattened antlers in the male.
[Obsolete fallow, reddish-yellow, from Middle English falow, falwe, from Old English fealu; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
fallow deer
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) either of two deer, Dama dama or D. mesopotamica, native to the Mediterranean region and Persia respectively. The antlers are flattened and the summer coat is reddish with white spots
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Noun1.fallow deerfallow deer - small Eurasian deer                  
Dama dama
cervid, deer - distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
Dama, genus Dama - fallow deer
Translations
fallow deer
n → Damwild nt
fallow deer n pl inv → daino/a
fallow deer n pl inv → daino/a


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There had they built huts of bark and branches of trees, and made couches of sweet rushes spread over with skins of fallow deer.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context
In a few moments a colt was seen gliding, like a fallow deer, among the straight trunks of the pines; and, in another instant, the person of the ungainly man, described in the preceding chapter, came into view, with as much rapidity as he could excite his meager beast to endure without coming to an open rupture.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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