CHEVROTAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chevrotain mean? 

• CHEVROTAIN (noun)
  The noun CHEVROTAIN has 1 sense:

1. very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa

  Familiarity information: CHEVROTAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEVROTAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chevrotain; mouse deer

Hypernyms ("chevrotain" is a kind of...):

ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chevrotain"):

kanchil; Tragulus kanchil (small chevrotain of southeastern Asia)

napu; Tragulus Javanicus (chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil; found in India and Malaya)

Hyemoschus aquaticus; water chevrotain; water deer (largest chevrotain; of marshy areas of west Africa)

Holonyms ("chevrotain" is a member of...):

family Tragulidae; Tragulidae (chevrotains)