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nounmouse-deer (plural mouse-deers or mouse-deer)
plural mouse-deers
- alternativeAlternative form of mouse deer.
The Mouse-deer are small animals, entirely hornless but with long sharp canines present in the upper jaw of the males.
1909 September, C[ecil] Boden Kloss, “The Primates, Carnivores and Ungulates of the Peninsular Region”, in Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, number 53, Singapore: […] The Methodist Publishing House, →OCLC, page 43
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