HyperDic: cervid

English > 1 sense of the word cervid:
NOUNanimalcervid, deerdistinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
English > cervid: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningdistinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
Synonymdeer
Member ofCervidae, family Cervidaedeer
Partsantlerdeciduous horn of a member of the deer family
flagA conspicuously marked or shaped tail
scutA short erect tail
withersThe highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals
NarrowerJapanese deer, sika, Cervus nipon, Cervus sikasmall deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers
Virginia deer, white tail, whitetail, white-tailed deer, whitetail deer, Odocoileus VirginianusCommon North American deer
brocketsmall South American deer with unbranched antlers
caribou, reindeer, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandusArctic deer with large antlers in both sexes
elk, moose, Alces alceslarge northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male
fallow deer, Dama damasmall Eurasian deer
fawnA young deer
mule deer, burro deer, Odocoileus hemionuslong-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers
muntjac, barking deersmall Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark / bark
musk deer, Moschus moschiferussmall heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia
pere david's deer, elaphure, Elaphurus davidianuslarge Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds
pricketmale deer in his second year
red deer, elk, American elk, wapiti, Cervus elaphusCommon deer of temperate Europe and Asia
roe deer, Capreolus capreolussmall graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers
sambar, sambur, Cervus unicolorA deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
wapiti, elk, American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensislarge North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
BroaderruminantAny of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
Spanishcervidae, cérvido, cérvidos, ciervo, ciervos, venado
Catalancèrvid, cérvol

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