cervid

cer·vid

C5223500 (sûr′vĭd)n. Any of various hoofed mammals of the family Cervidae, which includes the deer, moose, and elk. Most male cervids grow antlers that are shed each year.

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[New Latin Cervidae, family name, from Latin cervus, deer; see ker- in Indo-European roots.]

cervid

(ˈsɜːvɪd) n (Animals) any ruminant mammal of the family Cervidae, including the deer, characterized by the presence of antlersadj (Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Cervidae[C19: from New Latin Cervidae, from Latin cervus deer]

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Noun

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cervid - distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlersdeerantler - deciduous horn of a member of the deer familyscut - a short erect tailflag - a conspicuously marked or shaped tailruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartmentsCervidae, family Cervidae - deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deerpricket - male deer in his second yearfawn - a young deerCervus elaphus, red deer, wapiti, American elk, elk - common deer of temperate Europe and AsiaCervus unicolor, sambar, sambur - a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tinesAmerican elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, wapiti, elk - large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the maleCervus nipon, Cervus sika, Japanese deer, sika - small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlersOdocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white tail, whitetail, whitetail deer, white-tailed deer - common North American deer; tail has a white undersideburro deer, mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus - long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlersAlces alces, elk, European elk, moose - large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North AmericaDama dama, fallow deer - small Eurasian deerCapreolus capreolus, roe deer - small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlerscaribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer - Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North Americabrocket - small South American deer with unbranched antlersbarking deer, muntjac - small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a barkMoschus moschiferus, musk deer - small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued muskelaphure, Elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer - large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herdswithers - the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals