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white-tailed deer
noun
: a North American deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with a rather long tail white on the undersurface and the males of which have forward-arching antlers
called also whitetail deer
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Maine hasn’t seen the disease among its white-tailed deer population, but regularly tests for the disease as a precaution, said Mark Latti, spokesman for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
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Ben Kesling, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2022
Their diet includes insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds and mammals, such as squirrels, rabbits or white-tailed deer.
—Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
The biggest python ever captured weighed a whopping 215 pounds and had recently consumed an entire white-tailed deer.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
But larger animals aren’t safe either; people have spotted these pythons swallowing alligators and white-tailed deer whole.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
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Ben Kesling, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2022
Their diet includes insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds and mammals, such as squirrels, rabbits or white-tailed deer.
—Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
The biggest python ever captured weighed a whopping 215 pounds and had recently consumed an entire white-tailed deer.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
But larger animals aren’t safe either; people have spotted these pythons swallowing alligators and white-tailed deer whole.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
See All Example Sentences for white-tailed deer
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“White-tailed deer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white-tailed%20deer. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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