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Deer Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Deer?
[n] distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
Synonyms | Synonyms for Deer: cervid Related Terms | Find terms related to Deer: antelope | buck | camel | camelopard | Cape elk | caribou | deerlet | doe | dromedary | eland | elk | fallow deer | fawn | gazelle | giraffe | gnu | hart | hartebeest | hind | kaama | moose | mule deer | musk deer | okapi | red deer | reindeer | roe | roe deer | roebuck | springbok | stag | Virginia deer | wildebeest See Also | Alces alces | American elk | antler | barking deer | brocket | burro deer | Capreolus capreolus | caribou | Cervidae | Cervus canadensis | Cervus elaphus | Cervus nipon | Cervus sika | Cervus unicolor | Dama dama | elaphure | Elaphurus davidianus | elk | European elk | fallow deer | family Cervidae | fawn | flag | Greenland caribou | Japanese deer | moose | Moschus moschiferus | mule deer | muntjac | musk deer | Odocoileus hemionus | Odocoileus Virginianus | pere david's deer | pricket | Rangifer tarandus | red deer | reindeer | roe deer | ruminant | sambar | sambur | scut | sika | Virginia deer | wapiti | white tail | whitetail | whitetail deer | white-tailed deer | withers Deer In Webster's Dictionary \Deer\ (d[=e]r), n. sing. & pl. [OE. der, deor, animal,
wild animal, AS. de['o]r; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G.
thier, tier, Icel. d[=y]r, Dan. dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of
unknown origin. [root]71.]
1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Mice and rats, and such small deer. --Shak.
The camel, that great deer. --Lindisfarne
MS.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A ruminant of the genus {Cervus}, of many
species, and of related genera of the family {Cervid[ae]}.
The males, and in some species the females, have solid
antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually.
Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.
Note: The deer hunted in England is {Cervus elaphus}, called
also stag or red deer; the fallow deer is {C. dama};
the common American deer is {C. Virginianus}; the
blacktailed deer of Western North America is {C.
Columbianus}; and the mule deer of the same region is
{C. macrotis}. See {Axis}, {Fallow deer}, {Mule deer},
{Reindeer}.
Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying,
deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc.
{Deer mouse} (Zo["o]l.), the white-footed mouse ({Hesperomys
leucopus}) of America.
{Small deer}, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used
metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the
first definition, above.) ``Minor critics . . . can find
leisure for the chase of such small deer.'' --G. P. Marsh.
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