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DEER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
Synonyms:
cervid; deer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("deer" is a kind of...):
ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)
Meronyms (parts of "deer"):
withers (the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals)
flag (a conspicuously marked or shaped tail)
scut (a short erect tail)
antler (deciduous horn of a member of the deer family)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deer"):
elaphure; Elaphurus davidianus; pere david's deer (large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds)
Moschus moschiferus; musk deer (small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk)
barking deer; muntjac (small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark)
brocket (small South American deer with unbranched antlers)
caribou; Greenland caribou; Rangifer tarandus; reindeer (Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called 'reindeer' in Eurasia and 'caribou' in North America)
Capreolus capreolus; roe deer (small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers)
Dama dama; fallow deer (small Eurasian deer)
Alces alces; elk; moose (large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called 'elk' in Europe and 'moose' in North America)
burro deer; mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus (long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers)
Odocoileus Virginianus; Virginia deer; white-tailed deer; white tail; whitetail; whitetail deer (common North American deer; tail has a white underside)
Cervus nipon; Cervus sika; Japanese deer; sika (small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers)
American elk; Cervus elaphus canadensis; elk; wapiti (large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male)
Cervus unicolor; sambar; sambur (a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines)
American elk; Cervus elaphus; elk; red deer; wapiti (common deer of temperate Europe and Asia)
fawn (a young deer)
pricket (male deer in his second year)
Holonyms ("deer" is a member of...):
Cervidae; family Cervidae (deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer)
Context examples:
"She's not a stricken deer anyway," said Ned, trying to be witty, and succeeding as well as very young gentlemen usually do.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Her brown eyes were like a startled deer’s.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
'Rats and mice and such small deer,' as Shakespeare has it, 'chicken-feed of the larder' they might be called.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And truly Buck was the Fiend incarnate, raging at their heels and dragging them down like deer as they raced through the trees.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
If you wish, said the Lion, I will go into the forest and kill a deer for you.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
But he was off like a deer after the shot that killed poor William Kirwan was fired.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thus we find such modern creatures as the tapir—an animal with quite a respectable length of pedigree—the great deer, and the ant-eater in the companionship of reptilian forms of jurassic type.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An extract obtained from deer antler velvet.
(Cervus elaphus Horn Oil, NCI Thesaurus)
CWD was first identified in 1967 in captive deer held in Colorado wildlife facilities.
(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)
Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a spiral-shaped bacterium transmitted by deer ticks.
(Scientists work toward a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test for Lyme disease, National Institutes of Health)
