Virginia deer

noun

1. the common white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, of eastern North America.
2. any related variety of white-tailed deer.

Virginia deer

noun

1. another name for white-tailed deer

Word History and Origins

Origin of Virginia deer¹

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85

Example Sentences

The pelage of the young guanaco is a soft and beautiful fur—red on the back, like that of a Virginia deer, and shading into pure white underneath.

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It was of a very dark, almost black, colour, much larger than a Virginia deer, and more lightly built, with a longer black scut.

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Its tail is white underneath, dark outside, shading to black at the lower end, and while longer than that of the mule-deer, is not so long as that of the Virginia deer.

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Of these the Virginia deer is best known, as its range embraces the most thickly settled portion of the continent between Maine and the Gulf States, and from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains.

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Such has been the experience with the axis deer, the Japanese and Pekin sikas, the red and the fallow deer of Europe, and especially with the wapiti, or Rocky Mountain elk, and the Virginia deer.

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