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BURRO DEER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers

Synonyms:

burro deer; mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("burro deer" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burro deer"):

black-tailed deer; blacktail; blacktail deer; Odocoileus hemionus columbianus (mule deer of western Rocky Mountains)

Holonyms ("burro deer" is a member of...):

genus Odocoileus; Odocoileus (North American deer)

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