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deer (enc)

Deer

Noun1.deer - distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
antler - deciduous horn of a member of the deer family
scut - a short erect tail
flag - a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
ruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
Cervidae, family Cervidae - deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer
pricket - male deer in his second year
fawn - young deer
Cervus elaphus, red deer - common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
Cervus unicolor, sambar, sambur - a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
American elk, Cervus canadensis, wapiti - large North American deer with large much-branched antlers
Cervus nipon, Cervus sika, Japanese deer, sika - small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers
Odocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white tail, white-tailed deer, whitetail, whitetail deer - common North American deer; tail has a white underside
burro deer, mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus - long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers
Alces alces, elk, European elk, moose - large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called elk in Europe and moose in North America
Dama dama, fallow deer - small Eurasian deer
Capreolus capreolus, roe deer - small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers
caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer - arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called reindeer in Eurasia and caribou in North America
brocket - small South American deer with unbranched antlers
barking deer, muntjac - small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark
Moschus moschiferus, musk deer - small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk
elaphure, Elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer - large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds
withers - the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals

 

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