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deer
(mass) | deer
- jeleň |
deer
(encz) | deer,jelen n: Zdeněk Brož |
deer
(encz) | deer,vysoká zvěř n: Zdeněk Brož |
Deer
(gcide) | Deer \Deer\ (d[=e]r), n. sing. & pl. [OE. der, deor, animal,
wild animal, AS. de['o]r; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G.
thier, tier, Icel. d[=y]r, Dan. dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of
unknown origin. [root]71.]
1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Mice and rats, and such small deer. --Shak.
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The camel, that great deer. --Lindisfarne
MS.
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2. (Zool.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species,
and of related genera of the family Cervid[ae]. The
males, and in some species the females, have solid
antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually.
Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called
venison.
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Note: The deer hunted in England is Cervus elaphus, called
also stag or red deer; the fallow deer is {Cervus
dama}; the common American deer is {Cervus
Virginianus}; the blacktailed deer of Western North
America is Cervus Columbianus; and the mule deer of
the same region is Cervus macrotis. See Axis,
Fallow deer, Mule deer, Reindeer.
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Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying,
deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc.
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Deer mouse (Zool.), the white-footed mouse ({Peromyscus
leucopus}, formerly Hesperomys leucopus) of America.
Small deer, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used
metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the
first definition, above.) "Minor critics . . . can find
leisure for the chase of such small deer." --G. P. Marsh.
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deer
(wn) | deer
n 1: distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid
deciduous antlers [syn: deer, cervid] |
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commandeer
(encz) | commandeer,přivlastnit si Zdeněk Brož |
deer fern
(encz) | deer fern, n: |
deer fly fever
(encz) | deer fly fever, n: |
deer grass
(encz) | deer grass, n: |
deer hunt
(encz) | deer hunt, n: |
deer hunter
(encz) | deer hunter, n: |
deer hunting
(encz) | deer hunting, n: |
deer mouse
(encz) | deer mouse, n: |
deer mushroom
(encz) | deer mushroom, n: |
deer stand
(encz) | deer stand,posed n: xkomczax |
deer tick
(encz) | deer tick, n: |
deer trail
(encz) | deer trail, n: |
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