English > cervid: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers. |
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| Synonym | deer |
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| Member of | Cervidae, family Cervidae | deer |
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| Parts | antler | deciduous horn of a member of the deer family |
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| flag | A conspicuously marked or shaped tail |
| scut | A short erect tail |
| withers | The highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals |
| Narrower | Japanese deer, sika, Cervus nipon, Cervus sika | small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers |
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| Virginia deer, white tail, whitetail, white-tailed deer, whitetail deer, Odocoileus Virginianus | Common North American deer |
| brocket | small South American deer with unbranched antlers |
| caribou, reindeer, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus | Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes |
| elk, moose, Alces alces | large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male |
| fallow deer, Dama dama | small Eurasian deer |
| fawn | A young deer |
| mule deer, burro deer, Odocoileus hemionus | long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers |
| muntjac, barking deer | small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark / bark |
| musk deer, Moschus moschiferus | small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia |
| pere david's deer, elaphure, Elaphurus davidianus | large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds |
| pricket | male deer in his second year |
| red deer, elk, American elk, wapiti, Cervus elaphus | Common deer of temperate Europe and Asia |
| roe deer, Capreolus capreolus | small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers |
| sambar, sambur, Cervus unicolor | A deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines |
| wapiti, elk, American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis | large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male |
| Broader | ruminant | Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments |
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| Spanish | cervidae, cérvido, cérvidos, ciervo, ciervos, venado |
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| Catalan | cèrvid, cérvol |
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