barking deer

1. 1.

   small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark

   Synonymsmuntjac

   Broaderdeer

   Part ofMuntiacus

Questions about barking deer

What does barking deer mean?

barking deer means "small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark".

What is another word for barking deer?

Close synonyms include muntjac. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barking deer a common word?

barking deer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.