noun
pl. -·bars or -·bar a large Asian deer (Cervus unicolor) with coarse hair, a short, erectile mane, and three-pointed antlers
also sp. sam′bur
Origin of sambar
Hindi s--omacrtilde--bar from Sanskrit ?ambarasambar
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sambar
noun
Any of various large deer of the genus Cervus, especially C. unicolor of southern Asia, having a dark brown coat and, in the male, large antlers usually with three points.
Origin of sambar
Hindi sāmbar from Sanskrit śambarahTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural sambars)
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Sentence Examples
- The sambar, or one or other of its subspecies, has also been naturalized in Mauritius, and in the Marianne Islands in the open Pacific.
- The former is imported in large quantities from the Sambar lake and Ramsur.
- I), the sambar and the red deer, becomes very large and more or less branched.
- The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is now widely distributed as a wild animal over New Zealand, where also the fallow-deer (C. dama) and the Indian sambar (C. aristotelis or unicolor) have been introduced locally.
- In the deer of the sambar group, where the antlers never advance beyond a three-tined type, the shedding is frequently, if not invariably, very irregular; but in the majority at least of the species with complex antlers the replacement is annual, the new appendages attaining their full development immediately before the pairing-season.
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