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Villages in Aberdeenshire, Scotland: See New Deer and Old Deer.
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A township in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States.
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noun
A ruminant mammal with hooves and often antlers, of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla, such as the musk deer or mouse deer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Broader terms: ungulate, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
noun
A ruminant mammal with hooves and often antlers, of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla, such as the musk deer or mouse deer.
Such a mammal that is in the family Cervidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: true deer, cervid, cervine
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Broader terms: ungulate, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature, deer
noun
A ruminant mammal with hooves and often antlers, of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla, such as the musk deer or mouse deer.
Such a mammal that is in the family Cervidae.
One of the smaller animals of the family Cervidae, distinguished from a moose or elk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: true deer, cervid, cervine
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Broader terms: ungulate, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature, deer
noun
The meat of such an animal, obtained through the process of hunting or from specialized deer farms; venison.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Any animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
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Usage: countable
Qualifier: otherwise obsolete or archaic
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noun
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cervid
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Broader terms: ruminant
Narrower terms: pricket, fawn, red deer, elk, American elk, wapiti, Cervus elaphus, sambar, sambur, Cervus unicolor, Cervus elaphus canadensis, Japanese deer, sika, Cervus nipon, Cervus sika, Virginia deer, white tail, whitetail, white-tailed deer, whitetail deer, Odocoileus Virginianus, mule deer, burro deer, Odocoileus hemionus, European elk, moose, Alces alces, fallow deer, Dama dama, roe deer, Capreolus capreolus, caribou, reindeer, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, brocket, muntjac, barking deer, musk deer, Moschus moschiferus, pere david's deer, elaphure, Elaphurus davidianus
History
Probably from Pictish *deru (“oak”), from Proto-Brythonic *dar.
From Middle English der, deer (“animal, deer”), from Old English dēor (“animal”), from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dhewsóm (“living thing”), from *dhéws (“breath”), full-grade derivative of *dhwes-. Cognate with Scots deer (“deer”), North Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), West Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), Dutch dier (“animal, beast”), German Low German Deer, Deert (“animal”), German Tier (“animal, beast”), Swedish djur (“animal, beast”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk dyr (“animal, beast”), Icelandic dýr (“animal, beast”). Related also to Albanian dash (“ram”) (possibly), Lithuanian daũsos (“upper air; heaven”), Lithuanian dùsti (“to sigh”), Russian душа́ (dušá, “breath, spirit”), Lithuanian dvė̃sti (“to breathe, exhale”), Sanskrit ध्वंसति (dhvaṃsati, “he falls to dust”). For the semantic development compare Latin animālis (“animal”), from anima (“breath, spirit”).
Across languages
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