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Chinese water deer

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noun

  1. a small Chinese or Korean deer, Hydropotes inermis, having tusks and no antlers: introduced into England and France

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Three other Asiatic species - sika, Chinese water deer and muntjac - all arrived in the late 19th Century.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025

He said it helped control numbers of the deer, including muntjac and Chinese water deer, which he said were at an "all-time high".

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2023

They are present in the males of all species except the Chinese water deer, and the very divergent musk-deer, which probably should not be regarded as a deer at all.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various