muntjac

muntjac
noun Etymology: Sundanese (Austronesian language of western Java) mənyčək Date: circa 1798 any of a genus (Muntiacus) of small deer of southeastern Asia with a cry similar to the bark of a dog and having in the male upper canine teeth elongated into small tusks — called also barking deer

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