¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deerlets
1. deerlet [n] - See also: deerlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deerlets
Literary usage of Deerlets
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)
"The centre metacarpal bones in the Ruminantia are fused into one common bone,
except in the deerlets, which also have the two outer ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1895)
"At last, the musk- deer, the shyest and almost the smallest of the deerlets,
came, too, her big rabbity ears erect; even brindled, ..."
3. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"In male Musk-Deer, and in the likewise hornless but quite unrelated deerlets,
the canines are strongly developed and are used in fighting; in Elephants the ..."
4. Big Game Shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"The four-horn has the stilted action peculiar to deerlets, walking on the tips
of its toes. Sterndale remarks that it is higher at the croup than the ..."
5. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"... the living representatives of which are some pretty little hornless "deerlets,"
a foot or so in height, ..."
Other Resources:
