deer
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deer/dɪə(r)/
▶noun (pl. same) a hoofed grazing or browsing animal, with branched bony antlers that are shed annually and typically borne only by the male. [Family Cervidae : many species.]
– origin OE dēor, also orig. denoting any quadruped, used in the phr. small deer meaning ‘small creatures collectively’; of Gmc origin.
'deer' also found in these Oxford entries:
anoa
- antelope
- antler
- babirusa
- barking deer
- brocket
- buck
- buckhorn
- buckskin
- burr
- cervid
- cervine
- chevrotain
- chital
- cloven hoof
- coronet
- deer fly
- deer mouse
- deerskin
- dewclaw
- doe
- doeskin
- elk
- fallow deer
- fawn
- gralloch
- hart
- hartshorn
- hart's tongue
- head
- hind
- mouse deer
- mule deer
- muntjac
- musk
- musk deer
- numbles
- palm
- Père David's deer
- point
- pricket
- pronghorn
- quarry
- rack
- red deer
- reindeer
- roe
- roebuck
- royal stag
