CERVID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cervid mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERVID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cervid; deer

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "cervid"):

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 "cervid"):

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 ("cervid" is a member of...):

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