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muntjac
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun muntjac has 1 sense
- muntjac(n = noun.animal) barking deer - small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark; Array is a kind of cervid, deer
is a member of genus muntiacus, muntiacus
CIDE DICTIONARY
muntjac, n.
Any one of several species of small Asiatic deer of the genus Cervulus , esp. Cervulus muntjac , which occurs both in India and on the East Indian Islands. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
muntjac, n. (also muntjak) any small deer of the genus Muntiacus native to SE Asia, the male having tusks and small antlers.
Etymology
Sundanese minchek
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