| a Eurasian deer, Dama dama, with a fallow or yellowish coat. |
| fallow deer n. A small Eurasian deer (Dama dama) having a yellowish-red coat spotted with white in summer and broad, flattened antlers in the male. [Obsolete fallow, reddish-yellow, from Middle English falow, falwe, from Old English fealu; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
fallow deer
(Dama dama), medium-sized deer, family Cervidae (order Artiodactyla), commonly kept on estates and in parks and zoos. The fallow deer was probably native to the Mediterranean region and western Asia but has been introduced in many areas and now occurs wild in Europe and elsewhere. It often inhabits open woods; the females and young live in groups while the males remain apart except in the autumn breeding season.
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