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mazame|məˈzeɪm|
Also mazama.
[a. F. mazame (Buffon), a. Mexican maçame (cited in the Sp. transl. of Hernandez, 1615), pl. of maçatl deer, mistaken for a sing.
The U.S. Dicts. give the above pronunciation; the original word is |maˈsame|.]
1. Used as a name for various American species of deer; also applied to the Pronghorn.
By some recent zoologists the mod.L. mazama is used as the name of a genus including all the American Cervidæ.
1791Smellie tr. Buffon (ed. 3) VII. 31 These roebucks, or mazames and temamaçames of Mexico. 1890Century Dict., Mazame. 1. The North American pronghorn. 2. The pampas-deer of South America.
2. The antilopine Rocky Mountain goat, Oreamnus or Haplocerus montanus.
Hence the name of ‘The Mazamas’, given to a society of mountain-climbers organized on the summit of Mount Hood 19 July 1894 (Gd. Words Feb. 1901, p. 101).
1852J. E. Gray Catal. Specim. Mammalia Brit. Mus. iii. 114 Mazama Americana, The Mazame or Spring-buck. 1871–82Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 27 The Mazama or Mountain Goat of California and the Rocky Mountains. |