deer
Noun
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Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (synset 102432691)
is a type of: ruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartmentssubtypes:
- pricket - male deer in his second year
- fawn - a young deer
- american elk, cervus elaphus, elk, red deer, wapiti - 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 elaphus canadensis, elk, wapiti - large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
- 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, 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
belongs to: cervidae, family cervidae - deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deerhas:same as: cervid
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