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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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rusine
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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