n. A genus or subgenus of deer; the fallow-deer. The common European species is Cervus dama, also known as Dama platyceros.n. This, the generic name for the European fallow-deer, Dama dama, or D. vulgaris, was for a short time used for the American deer generally placed in the genus Odocoileus of Rafinesque, which has precedence over Cariacus.