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RED DEER

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("red 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 "red deer"):

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 ("red deer" is a member of...):

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

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