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blacktail

British  
/ ˈblækˌteɪl /

noun

  1. a variety of mule deer having a black tail

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Renamed Wind Wolves, it is now the largest privately owned nature preserve on the West Coast, where endangered kit foxes and leopard lizards thrive along with elk, blacktail deer, great horned owls and bobcats.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

The program has since provided Meyer with hunts for whitetail, mule deer, blacktail deer, mountain lion, alligator, black bear and hogs.

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2021

In 30 years of snake handling, Wyant has had “one and hopefully my only” venomous snake bite, incurred while trying to force-feed a sick blacktail rattler in 1992.

From Washington Times • Jun. 13, 2018

Every time I hiked through the scrub, road runners, fence lizards, kangaroo rats and blacktail jackrabbits skittered under the creosote bushes.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2017

It's Dave Tutt who makes Bowlaigs captive; Dave rounds Bowlaigs up in his infancy one time when he's pesterin' about over in the foothills of the Floridas lookin' for blacktail deer.

From Wolfville Nights by Lewis, Alfred Henry