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chevrotin

Syllables: che·vrot·inUK/ˈʃɛvɹə(ʊ)tɪn/US/ˈʃɛvɹoʊtɪn/

chevrotin is the alternative form of chevrotain.

Meaning of chevrotain

Noun

chevrotain (plural chevrotains)

  1. Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae, native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa.
    • To this vve may add the Chevrotin, or little Guinea Deer, vvhich is the leaſt of all cloven-footed quadrupeds, and perhaps the moſt beautiful; its legs, at the ſmalleſt part, are not much thicker than the ſhank of a tobacco-pipe; it is about ſeven inches high, and about tvvelve from the point of...1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Sheep and Goat Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume III, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John]...
    Synonyms:
    mouse deer, tragulid

Forms of chevrotin

pluralchevrotins

Questions about chevrotin

What is chevrotin the alternative form of?
Chevrotin is the alternative form of chevrotain.
How do you pronounce chevrotin?
Chevrotin is pronounced /ˈʃɛvɹə(ʊ)tɪn/ (UK).

Words near chevrotin in the dictionary

  1. chevronwise
  2. chevrony
  3. chevroné
  4. chevrotain
  5. chevrotains
  6. chevrotin
  7. chevrotins
  8. Chevs
  9. Chevvie
  10. Chevvies
  11. Chevvy

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