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pelandok|pəlænˈdɒk|
Also plandok.
[Malay.]
The lesser mouse-deer, Tragulus javanicus, native to parts of south-east Asia.
1821J. Leyden tr. Malay Annals 89 One of his dogs roused a white pelandok. 1836J. Low Diss. Soil & Agric. Penang iii. 188 The plandok, or cheurotin [sic] of Buffon, or hornless deer, about the size of a hare, is plentiful. 1839T. J. Newbold Pol. & Statistical Acct. Straits of Malacca I. vii. 436 The Plandok is a favourite animal among the Malays, and frequently alluded to both in their prose compositions and poems. 1900W. Maxwell in W. W. Skeat Malay Magic v. 113 There lived a man whose wife..was seized with a violent longing for the meat of the pelandok (mouse-deer). 1905Outing Jan. 469/2 It may be anything from a plandok (mouse deer) to a tiger. 1958[see kidang]. 1962Listener 22 Nov. 878/2 The spider being here [sc. in Africa] what the plandok is in Malaya, a jungle Till Eulenspiegel. 1965C. Shuttleworth Malayan Safari ii. 26 The flesh of the pelandok is extremely edible, and he is hunted constantly. 1969Ld. Medway Wild Mammals Malaya 106/1 Lesser Mouse⁓deer. Pelandok, Kanchil... Largely nocturnal; generally solitary. |