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definition

A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla

definition

(in particular) one of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk

example

I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.

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The meat of such an animal; venison.

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Oh, I've never had deer before.

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(except in the phrase "small deer") an animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal, as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.

It was likely a deer trail.

A deer watched them from the trees.

I'll see if I can find a deer next time.

Three species of deer are common.

The area he was watching was where she often saw deer in the early morning hours.

Leave the deer alone.

Even deer have killed people.

By the time they reached the spot, the deer had vanished in the trees.

Leave the deer alone!

Maybe the deer had died of natural causes.

It was mostly used by deer, but she had been up it a number of times with her father.

When she recognized the deer hock in her hand, she dropped it.

That cat probably won't bother the adults as long as there are deer around, but it might go after the calf.

With one misstep he knew she would run like a frightened deer.

Fortunately there had been no sign of slain deer or wild dogs.

The men gathered at the spot where she and Josh had seen the deer carcass and appeared to be discussing something.

Damian turned in time to see the vamp Charlie struggling to drag a skinned deer carcass across the threshold.

With our speed, we should be able to run down deer.

Did you tell him about the deer yet?

It was a deer – or what was left of one, anyway.

There are deer, called taruco (Cervus antisensis); the viscacha, a large rodent; a species of fox called atoc; and the puma (Felts concolor) and ucumari or black bear with a white muzzle, when driven by hunger, wander into the loftier regions.

I learned how the sun and the rain make to grow out of the ground every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, how birds build their nests and live and thrive from land to land, how the squirrel, the deer, the lion and every other creature finds food and shelter.

Multiple dirt deer trails moved away.

The musk deer (Moschus) is also quite restricted to northern Asia, and is one of its most peculiar types.

In 1218 William Comyn, earl of Buchan, founded the Abbey of St Mary of Deer, now in ruins, 4 m.

He stalked off into the forest, away from the castle and cliff.  Toby clambered through the brush and trees after him, the angel's footsteps loud where Rhyn's were silent.  Rhyn found a deer path and followed it until he reached a snowy meadow.  Crossing it, he continued to look for a place to stash the angel where the kid wouldn't freeze to death.  After another hour of walking, he found a small pocket in the roots of a massive tree.

Crossing the creek and field to her house, she studied the hillside beyond for any sign of a deer.

You figured Brutus killed the deer and you figured he'd shoot him.

He followed her and studied the deer.

Brush crackled near the edge of the forest and then a deer leaped into the open.

The deer paused only a second when it saw her, and then bounded across the clearing, its white tail held erect.

The Asiatic elephant; the seladang, a bison of a larger type than the Indian gaur; two varieties of rhinoceros; the honey bear (bruang), the tapir, the sambhur (rusa); the speckled deer (kijang), three varieties of mouse-deer (napoh, plandok and kanchil); the gibbon (ungka or wawa'), the siamang, another species of anthropoid ape, the brok or coco-nut monkey, so called because it is trained by the Malays to gather the nuts from the coco-nut trees, the lotong, kra, and at least twenty other kinds of monkey; the binturong (arctictis binturong), the lemur; the Asiatic tiger, the black panther, the leopard, the large wild cat (harimau akar), several varieties of jungle cat; the wild boar, the wild dog; the flying squirrel,.

Many visitors are attracted by the fishing (especially for tarpon) and shooting in the vicinity, water-fowl being plentiful in the Bay, and deer, quail and wild turkeys being found in the vicinity inland.

The rapid settling of the state drove its native fauna, which comprised buffalo, deer, moose, bear, lynx and wolves, in great numbers into the northern sections, westward into Dakota, or across the Canadian border.

Deer and moose are still found in the state.

Squirrels, bears, foxes, arctic foxes, antelopes and especially deer in spring are the principal objects of the chase.

As we descend in the geological series the deer have simpler antlers, as in the European Miocene Dicrocerus; while in the Oligocene Amphitragulus, Dremotherium and Palaeomeryx, constituting the family Palaeomerycidae, antlers were absent, and the crowns of the molars so low that the whole depth of the hollows between the crescentic columns is completely visible.

From North America have been obtained remains of certain ruminants which seem in some degree intermediate between deer and the prongbuck.

Matthew shows, however, that the skeleton of Merycodus, as the extinct ruminant is called, differs markedly from that of all deer.

The most noteworthy point of distinction is in the skull, in which the facial portion is sharply bent down on the posterior basal axis in the fashion characteristic of the hollow-horned ruminants (oxen, antelopes, &c.), and the American prongbuck, instead of running more or less nearly parallel to the same, as in deer.

In the absence of any trace of the lower extremities of the metacarpal and metatarsal bones of the lateral toes the skeleton differs from the American deer, and resembles those hollow-horned ruminants in which these toes persist.

Either we must regard Merycodus as a deer which parallels the antelopes and the prongbuck in every detail of skeletal structure, or else, like the prongbuck, an antelope separated from the main stock at a date sufficiently early to have permitted the development of a distinct type of cranial appendages, namely, antlers in place of true horns.

But American extinct types appear to indicate signs of intimate relationship between antelopes, prongbuck and deer, and it may be necessary eventually to amend the current classification.

Whatever be the ultimate verdict, the association of antlers - and these, be it noticed, conforming almost exactly with the forked type characteristic of American deer - with an antilopine type of skull, skeleton and teeth in Merycodus is a most interesting and unexpected feature.

Upon an artificial island in the lake traces of lake-dwellings were discovered in 1869, together with the bones of red deer, wild boar and Bos longifrons.

Bears, foxes, otters and sables are numerous, as also the reindeer in the north, and the musk deer, hares, squirrels, rats and mice everywhere.

Complaints are often raised about the cruelty of what is called tame stag hunting, and it became a special subject of criticism that a pack should still be kept at the Royal kennels at Ascot (it was abolished in 1901) and hunted by the Master of the Buckhounds; but it is the constant endeavour of all masters and hunt servants to prevent the infliction of any injury on the deer.

Swamp deer, pheasants, and occasionally tigers are found in it.

Elephants are numerous, and tigers, leopards, bears, bison and various kinds of deer abound in the forests.

A small deer and, in southern Ecuador, the llama (Auchenia) with its allied species, the alpaca, guanaco and vicuna, represent the ruminants.