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CERVUS ELAPHUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

Synonyms:

American elk; Cervus elaphus; elk; red deer; wapiti

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Cervus elaphus" 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 "Cervus elaphus"):

hart; stag (a male deer, especially an adult male red deer)

hind (a female deer, especially an adult female red deer)

brocket (male red deer in its second year)

Holonyms ("Cervus elaphus" is a member of...):

Cervus; genus Cervus (the type genus of the Cervidae)

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