DEER

Deer

Deer are the ruminant mammals that comprise the family Cervidae. Species therein include white-tailed deer, such mule deer as black-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer fallow deer, roe deer, pudú and chital. Male deer of all species and female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year, thereby differing from such permanently horned animals as antelope, which are in the same order as deer and may be superficially similar. The musk deer of Asia and water chevrotain of tropical African and Asian forests are not usually regarded to be deer and form their own families: Moschidae and Tragulidae, respectively.

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deer

Noun

  1. A beast, usually a quadruped as opposed to birds, fish, etc.
  2. (Esp. in phrase small deer) Any animal, especially a mammal.
    But mice and rats and such small deer, have been Tom's food for seven long year. -Shakespeare, King Lear. Act III. Sc. IV.
  3. a ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla
    I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.
  4. The meat of such an animal
    Oh, I've never had deer before.


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