white-tailed

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  1. Having the tail more or less completely white: noting various birds and other animals.
  2. White-tailed buzzard Buteo albocaudatus, a fine large hawk of Texas and southward, having the tail and its coverts white with broad black subterminal zone, and many fine zigzag blackish lines.
  3. White-tailed deer the commonest deer of North America, Cariacus virginianus; the whitetail. The tail is very long and broad, of a flattened lanceolate shape, and on the upper side concolor with the back; but it is pure-white underneath, and very conspicuous when hoisted in flight. See cut under Cariacus.
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  • Removing the daily bag limit for white-tailed deer. —  newsobserver.com blogs
  • * Removing the daily bag limit for white-tailed deer. —  NewsObserver.com - Home
  • The 10-day hunt in the South Mountain Reservation is designed to cull white-tailed deer, which reproduce quickly and are a problem for many New Jersey communities because they ravage vegetation, cause traffic accidents and carry ticks that spread Lyme disease. —  Latest News
  • But yeah, hunting for meat, particularly the invasive white-tailed deer in the South, well that's ok with me. —  The Compact
  • The refuge was created in 1957 to protect the rare subspecies of white-tailed deer, which became geographically isolated 20,000 years ago; after dwindling to a low of 25, the population now stands at 500 to 700. —  Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
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