Definition of Rusine

1. a. Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rusa, which includes the sambur deer (Rusa Aristotelis) of India.

Definition of Rusine

1. Adjective. (zoology) Of, like, or relating to, a deer of the genus ''Rusa''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rusine

1. pertaining to a genus of deer [adj]

Medical Definition of Rusine

1. Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rusa, which includes the sambur deer (Rusa Aristotelis) of India. Rusine antler, an antler with the brow tyne simple, and the beam forked at the tip. Origin: NL. Rusa, the name of the genus, Malay rusa deer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rusine

rusher
rushers
rushes
rushest
rusheth
rushier
rushiest
rushiness
rushing
rushingly
rushings
rushlight
rushlights
rushlike
rushy
rusine (current term)
rusk
rusks
rusma
rusmas
russel
russell's viper
russellite
russels
russet
russet scab
russeted
russeting
russetings
russets

Literary usage of Rusine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"GENUS RUSA-THE rusine DEER. Antlers with a brow tine, the beam bifurcating into a tres and royal tine ; muffle large; lachrymal fossa large and deep ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"This last genus includes many species, and is subdivided, chiefly according to the form of the antlers, into seven groups, as follows: (1) rusine, ..."

3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"... the stag, and dama, the fallow deer ; (£) the rusine deer, with an anterior basal snag, the muffle very high and not separated from the edge of the lip, ..."

4. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"rusine deer are abundant in the Indian Siwaliks, but appear to be unknown in the Pikermi beds. Although they have one Tibetan representative, ..."

5. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological by Zoological Society of London Committee of Science and Correspondence, Committee of Science and Correspondence, Zoological Society of London (1850)
"The rusine Deer have a distinct anterior basal snag to the horns, the muffle very high, and not separated from the edge of the lip, ..."

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