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adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of deer (in the broad sense).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: deerish, deerlike, cervoid, cervid
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of deer (in the broad sense).
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of deer in the narrow sense, that is, Cervinae, Capreolinae, or similar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: deerish, deerlike, cervoid, cervid
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any cervid/true deer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: deer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deer, ungulate, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
noun
Any cervid/true deer.
A deer of the subfamily Cervinae, also idiomatically called the Old World deer in English (even though that term is a misnomer).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal
Topics: agriculture, biology, business, lifestyle, natural-sciences, zoology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: deer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deer, ungulate, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature, cervid, true deer
adjective
relating to or resembling deer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
By anglicisation from Latin cervīnus; by surface analysis, Latin cerv(us) (“deer”) + -ine.
