CERVUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cervus mean? 

• CERVUS (noun)
  The noun CERVUS has 1 sense:

1. the type genus of the Cervidae

  Familiarity information: CERVUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERVUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The type genus of the Cervidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cervus; genus Cervus

Hypernyms ("Cervus" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Cervus"):

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)

Holonyms ("Cervus" is a member of...):

Cervidae; family Cervidae (deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer)