Of or pertaining to the group of stags of which the Spotted Axis is the type.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the genus or subgenus Rusa of Asian deer (see rusa, n.). Cf. rucervine, adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the genus or subgenus Rucervus, which comprises three South and South-East Asian deer with antlers…

Belonging to or resembling the fallow deer, Dama dama.

Zoology. Used attributively to designate a heavily built kind of red deer with short antlers that is found in Sinkiang Uighur.