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The Collaborative International Dictionary
whitetail

Wheatear \Wheat"ear`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small European singing bird ( Saxicola [oe]nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.

Wiktionary
whitetail

n. A deer, ''Odocoileus virginianus'', family ''Cervidae'', perhaps the most popular game animal in North America.

WordNet
whitetail

n. common North American deer; tail has a white underside [syn: Virginia deer, white tail, white-tailed deer, whitetail deer, Odocoileus Virginianus]

Usage examples of "whitetail".

Once, the monstrosity might have been a whitetail buck, hardly a menace to humans.

They drove the cattle on to the west fording creeks and a small river and driving pockets of antelope and whitetail deer before them out of the stands of enormous cottonwoods through which they passed and they moved on until late in the day when they came to a fence and began to drift the cattle south.

I was a boy, hunting in the autumn for squirrel and whitetail deer, and I felt the peace that comes from being alone and in a wild place.

It is partially forested, and the indigenous fauna include whitetail deer, rabbit, raccoon.

He would stop, try to show me while I blinked and tried to see a whitetail where there were only gray shadows, then let the buck go.

Gesturing with the screwdriver, Pete described a stretch of hilly territory not too far from Cheyenne where it would be easy to sight, hypnotize, and drop a pretty little whitetail deer.

This pack scored many a triumph over blacktail, whitetail, and prong-buck.