chitaln.
/ˈtʃiːtəl/ The Indian spotted deer, Axis axis.
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1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 742 The chitál or spotted deer..is..admitted to be the most beautiful inhabitant of the Indian jungles.
1923 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 381/2 He..had been after cheetul here and had come on a tiger.
1925 Punch 20 May 546/2 The best of his bag was a chital stag.
1963 Times 5 Mar. 12/6 At one point he predicted a herd of cheetal and backed his words by giving the cheetal stag's call.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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