单词 | deer |
释义 | deer (once / 272 pages) n A deer is a four-legged, hoofed animal with antlers. Disney’s Bambi is a famous deer. There are deer all over the world, but American deer are light brown, and are often found nibbling on plants at dusk. The main thing that distinguishes deer from other horned animals, like antelope, is that deer shed their antlers once a year and grow new ones. A female deer, called a "doe," has smaller antlers than the male, or "buck." The Old English root of deer, deor, means "beast" or "animal," and was originally used generally to refer to all four-legged wild animals. WORD FAMILYdeer: deers USAGE EXAMPLESPaid events are regularly organized in Poland for foreigners who want to hunt deer, wild boar, hares or other small wild animals. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) As his father described it, he looked “like a deer in headlights.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Many elk, mule deer and antelope in Wyoming wear electronic data collars as researchers study how animals move across the landscape. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) n distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers Syn|Hypo|Hyper cervid pricket male deer in his second year fawna young deer American elk, Cervus elaphus, elk, red deer, wapiticommon deer of temperate Europe and Asia Cervus unicolor, sambar, sambura deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, elk, wapitilarge North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male Cervus nipon, Cervus sika, Japanese deer, sikasmall deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers Odocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white tail, white-tailed deer, whitetail, whitetail deercommon North American deer; tail has a white underside Odocoileus hemionus, burro deer, mule deerlong-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers Alces alces, European elk, elk, mooselarge northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America Dama dama, fallow deersmall Eurasian deer Capreolus capreolus, roe deersmall graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, caribou, reindeerArctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America brocketsmall South American deer with unbranched antlers barking deer, muntjacsmall Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark Moschus moschiferus, musk deersmall heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk Elaphurus davidianus, elaphure, pere david's deerlarge Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds hart, staga male deer, especially an adult male red deer hinda female deer, especially an adult female red deer brocketmale red deer in its second year Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, black-tailed deer, blacktail, blacktail deermule deer of western Rocky Mountains roebuckmale roe deer Rangifer caribou, woodland caribouany of several large caribou living in coniferous forests of southern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus Rangifer arcticus, barren ground caribouof tundra of northern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus ruminant any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments |
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