Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied to two or three species of East Indian deer, such as Cervus wallichi and C. (Rucervus) duvauceli.
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Examples
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What I am really shocked about is the the deer, called a barasingha, is on the list of endangered species!
Texas Oasis 2009
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His WWF career started in the early 1970s, when he lived in Central India studying the ecology of the threatened barasingha deer.
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Other work includes preliminary status surveys of the rhinoceros, Bengal florican and barasingha.
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The riparian grasslands are the best tiger habitat in India, and also well suited to the unique wild buffalo herds, gaur and barasingha, elephants and waterbirds.
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We have seen barasingha deer penned up between shock-absorbing bales of hay seriously try to jump straight up through a roof skylight nine feet from the floor.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895
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The barasingha deer is hysterical and unaccountable.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895
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No wild deer could act more absurdly than does the axis, the barasingha and fallow, even after generations have been bred in captivity.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895
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I had violated my own rules about going in armed with a stick, and it was lucky for me that the axis deer was not as large as the barasingha or the mule deer.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895
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-- In nervous energy the species of the Deer Family vary all the way from the nervous and hysterical barasingha to the sensible and steady American elk that can successfully be driven in harness like a horse.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895
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He said Buchi, who worked at the ranch, was unloading the barasingha deer, a species native to India and Nepal, from a trailer on Thursday with another employee when the animal gored Buchi in the thigh and side.
unknown title 2009
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