RED DEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red deer mean? 

• RED DEER (noun)
  The noun RED DEER has 1 sense:

1. common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

  Familiarity information: RED DEER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED DEER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American elk; Cervus elaphus; elk; red deer; wapiti

Hypernyms ("red deer" is a kind of...):

cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red deer"):

hart; stag (a male deer, especially an adult male red deer)

hind (a female deer, especially an adult female red deer)

brocket (male red deer in its second year)

Holonyms ("red deer" is a member of...):

Cervus; genus Cervus (the type genus of the Cervidae)

 Context examples 

Alleyne gave his staff a merry flourish, however, and the red deer bethought him that the King was far off, so streaked away from whence he came.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)