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BROCKET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Male red deer in its second year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("brocket" is a kind of...):

American elk; Cervus elaphus; elk; red deer; wapiti (common deer of temperate Europe and Asia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small South American deer with unbranched antlers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("brocket" is a kind of...):

cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)

Holonyms ("brocket" is a member of...):

genus Mazama; Mazama (brockets)

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