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black-tailed deer
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[blak-teyld]
noun
a variety of mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, of the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, having a tail that is black above.
Word History and Origins
Origin of black-tailed deer1
Example Sentences
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.
“I’ve responded to several other ‘elk’ on the island, and it’s been a black-tailed deer,” he says.
The wolves quickly decimated the island’s black-tailed deer population.
Off the trails, we surprise animals—a gray fox, black-tailed deer.
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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