chital
/ˈtʃiːt(ə)l
/noun
A deer having lyre-shaped antlers and a white-spotted fawn coat, native to India and Sri Lanka.
- Cervus axis, family Cervidae.
- Mills has culled a great deal of data to show which ungulates form its preferred diet - chital, sambar, nilgai and barasingha, and in some forests, gaur.
- 8 June: We arrived to find Lakshmi carrying a small chital fawn across the meadow to the upper fork of Menhar Nala.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Hindi cītal, from Sanskrit citrala 'spotted', from citra 'spot, mark'.