axis deer

American  

noun

1. an Asian deer, Cervus (Axis ) axis, of India and Sri Lanka, having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white.

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Example Sentences

In the summer air, the glow of invasive axis deer eyes pierce the darkness as throngs of them dart in between the settlement’s small, quaint houses — many of them vacant.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023

The animal was an axis deer from India, the Director of Wildlife at the Ministry of the Environment, Frederick Bauer, told local media.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2022

The deer was an axis deer from India, which had been donated to the presidential residence, the Director of Wildlife at the Ministry of the Environment, Frederick Bauer, told media.

From Reuters • Jan. 4, 2022

On Molokai, Hawaii’s fifth-largest island, residents are fretting about dry conditions after hundreds of axis deer were found dead of starvation last year.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2021

I had violated my own rules about going in armed with a stick, and it was lucky for me that the axis deer was not as large as the barasingha or the mule deer.

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple