white-tailed deer

Questions about white-tailed deer

What does white-tailed deer mean?

white-tailed deer means "common North American deer; tail has a white underside".

What is another word for white-tailed deer?

Close synonyms include Virginia deer, white tail, whitetail, whitetail deer, Odocoileus Virginianus. 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 white-tailed deer a common word?

white-tailed 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.