guazu

plural guazus

1. obsoletepossiblyA South American deer, especially a marsh deer.

   The marsh, or guazu deer (C. palustris) is a somewhat larger species, found in South Brazil, Paraguay, Rio Grande do Sul, and Uruguay; […]

   1894, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History: Mammals, page 389

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   The Guazus, or Brockets, as they are termed, are distinguished by the simplicity of their horns, which consist of a [...]. The Guazu-pita is somewhat larger than a roebuck : its general colour is rufous with a dusky tint on the face and legs; [...]

   1856, Charles Knight, Charles Knight's Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, page 138

   This head was carried by one of the Santa Elena deer [...]. The head approached even more nearly than usual that form of the normal Rucervine type assumed by Schomburgk's Deer (Cerviis schomburgki), omitting of course the brow-tine, which is not carried by the Guazus.

   1894, Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, page 314

   South America is the home of the marsh-deer or guazu, M. (Blastoceros) dichotoma, representing a subgenus in which the complex antlers lack a basal snag, while the hair of the back is reversed.

   1958, Paul Robert Kruse, The Story of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1768-1943, page 924