marsh deer
noun
A large reddish deer, Blastocerus dichotomus, of marshes and wet grasslands in parts of South America (now mainly southern Brazil), now threatened by loss of habitat, hunting, and infections from domestic cattle.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Richard Lydekker (1849–1915).
- mountain meal
- mountain mint
- mountain mockingbird
- mountain nyala
- mountain nymph
- mountain oak
- mountain of piety
- mountainous
- mountainously
- mountainousness
- mountain oyster
- mountain parrot
- mountain parsley
- mountain partridge
- mountain pepper
- mountain pheasant
- mountain pigeon
- mountain pine
- mountain pine beetle
- mountain pink
- mountain plover
- mountain pride
- mountain pygmy possum
- mountain quail
- mountain railroad