DEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deer mean? 

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

1. distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cervid; deer

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

ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)

Meronyms (parts of "deer"):

withers (the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals)

antler (deciduous horn of a member of the deer family)

flag (a conspicuously marked or shaped tail)

scut (a short erect tail)

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

burro deer; mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus (long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers)

elaphure; Elaphurus davidianus; pere david's deer (large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds)

Moschus moschiferus; musk deer (small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk)

barking deer; muntjac (small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark)

brocket (small South American deer with unbranched antlers)

caribou; Greenland caribou; Rangifer tarandus; reindeer (Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called 'reindeer' in Eurasia and 'caribou' in North America)

Capreolus capreolus; roe deer (small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers)

Dama dama; fallow deer (small Eurasian deer)

Alces alces; elk; moose (large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called 'elk' in Europe and 'moose' in North America)

Odocoileus Virginianus; Virginia deer; white-tailed deer; white tail; whitetail; whitetail deer (common North American deer; tail has a white underside)

Cervus nipon; Cervus sika; Japanese deer; sika (small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers)

American elk; Cervus elaphus canadensis; elk; wapiti (large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male)

Cervus unicolor; sambar; sambur (a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines)

American elk; Cervus elaphus; elk; red deer; wapiti (common deer of temperate Europe and Asia)

fawn (a young deer)

pricket (male deer in his second year)

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

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

 Context examples 

"Sambar deer generally have quite a bad rap in these forests," McConkey said.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Mule deer mothers are in sync with their environment, with reproduction patterns that closely match the cycles of plant growth in their habitat.

(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)

Tularemia is a life-threatening disease spread to humans via contact with an infected animal or through the bite of a mosquito, tick or deer fly.

(Natural lipid acts as potent anti-inflammatory, National Institutes of Health)

Deer and deer mice carry ticks that cause Lyme disease.

(Animal Diseases and Your Health, NIH)

Nay, I am woodman enough to see that no deer hath passed this way this morning; and yet the blood is fresh.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember the high, oak-panelled walls, with the heads of deer jutting out, and a single white bust, which sent my heart into my mouth, in the corner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was a new scene to us mountaineers; the majestic oaks, the quantity of game, and the herds of stately deer were all novelties to us.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

From trunk to trunk the creature flitted like a deer, running manlike on two legs, but unlike any man that I had ever seen, stooping almost double as it ran.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Two hundred deer and more came running inside the circle at once, and the huntsmen shot them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She arose with catlike ease and suddenness to her full height, her eyes flashing, her nostrils quivering like a deer's.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)