CERVUS ELAPHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cervus elaphus mean? 

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

1. common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERVUS ELAPHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American elk; Cervus elaphus; elk; red deer; wapiti

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

cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cervus elaphus"):

hart; stag (a male deer, especially an adult male red deer)

hind (a female deer, especially an adult female red deer)

brocket (male red deer in its second year)

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

Cervus; genus Cervus (the type genus of the Cervidae)