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black-tailed deer

[ blak-teyld ]

noun

  1. a variety of mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, of the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, having a tail that is black above.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of black-tailed deer1

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
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In Western Washington, some groups of black-tailed deer migrate from summer ranges high in the Cascade and Olympic mountains to spend the winter in lower elevation forests and valleys.

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“I’ve responded to several other ‘elk’ on the island, and it’s been a black-tailed deer,” he says.

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The wolves quickly decimated the island’s black-tailed deer population.

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Off the trails, we surprise animals—a gray fox, black-tailed deer.

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In November, he hunted black-tailed deer and caught shrimp in Alaska and then white-tailed deer in Nebraska; in December, he shot ducks in Louisiana.

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