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Blacktail

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A percoid fish, the Acerina cernua. More generally called ruff or pope. See ruff.
  • noun. A common name among hunters of the black-tailed deer or mule-deer, Cariacus macrotis (see mule-deer)
  • noun. of the Columbian deer, C. columbianus: in both cases in distinction from the common or white-tailed deer, C. virginianus.
  • noun. In India, a name of the chikara or ravine-deer, Tragops bennetti.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fish; the ruff or pope.
  • noun. The black-tailed deer (Cervus Columbianus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fish: the ruff or pope.
  • noun. The black-tailed deer (Cervus or Cariacus columbianus) of California and Oregon.
  • noun. The mule deer of the Rocky Mountains.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. mule deer of western Rocky Mountains
  • Word Usage
    "Do you think that those that are in blacktail country, are hunting the hardest to get the trophy deer?"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fish  
    variant
    mule deer