whitetail
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈhwaɪtˌteɪl/
- US
:
ciervo de cola blanca
- While hiking in the forest, I spotted a beautiful whitetail deer grazing near the edge of the clearing.
- whitetail deer
- whitetail buck
- whitetail hunter
Examples
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Sixty whitetail deer shared the meadows.
Academic text (2001) -
Michigan's whitetail deer season allows hunters their first opportunity on October 1st.
Blog text (8) -
Now just imagine... ...a huge whitetail steps out of the brush.
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The whitetails really run - this time of year.
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Kasidy had never taken a whitetail or turkey prior to this.
Blog text (13) -
The cautious hunter will succeed with the whitetail.
Fiction book (1999) -
What better way to hunt whitetail deer than from a canoe?
Blog text (5) -
Mike Bleech has been hunting whitetails in his native Pennsylvania and throughout the Northeast for more than four decades.
Blog text (13) -
Martha studied whitetails in college and got her doctorate in ungulates.
Fiction book (1995) -
Big woods, rolling farmland, woodlot, swamp, ridge, and valley—this region features every type of whitetail terrain imaginable.
Blog text (13)
Synonyms
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2.8
A North American deer with a white underside to its tail that it raises when scared
1
2.4
A North American deer with a white tail that lifts when it is scared
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3.0
A deer with white fur under its tail
A common North American deer with a white underside to its tail
A common North American deer with white under its tail
Compounds
- Specialized
A small ground squirrel with a white tail that moves quickly in the dry western United States
A large wild hare in North America with a white tail that lives in plains and mountains
A small animal that lives in holes in the ground and has a white-tipped tail, found in western US grasslands
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Whitetail combines white 'the color' and tail 'the back part of an animal'. It names a North American deer that shows the white underside of its tail when alarmed, so the name directly describes the animal and its warning flash.