Deer synonyms

doe

The definition of a doe is a female deer, goat, hare or kangaroo.

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cervus (Latin)

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stag

A full-grown male deer, esp. a hart or a caribou

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hart

A male of the European red deer, esp. after its fifth year, when the crown antlers are formed; stag

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buck

(Finance, jargon) One million dollars.

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fawn

Fawn is defined as a light yellow brown color, often used to describe the color of an animal’s coat.

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staggard

A male red deer when four years old.

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roe (female red deer)

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roe

A surname, from a Middle English nickname meaning a roe.

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pricket

A small point or spike for holding a candle upright.

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venison

(Obs.) The flesh of a game animal, used as food

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elk

A large reddish-brown or grayish deer (Cervus canadensis) of western North America, having long, branching antlers in the male. The elk is sometimes considered a subspecies of the closely related red deer.

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hind

A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.

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dow

A surname.

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havier(castrated)

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roebuck

The male of the roe deer

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spitter

A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

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(female) doe

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cervine

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fallow-deer

A ruminant mammal (Dama dama) belonging to the family Cervidae.

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mule-deer

Odocoileus hemionus, a species of deer found in western North America.

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reindeer

A large deer (Rangifer tarandus) of the Arctic tundra and northern boreal forests, having large hooves and long branched antlers in both sexes, and widely domesticated in Eurasia. Subspecies native to North America and Greenland are usually called caribou.

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does

Plural form of doe

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cervid

Any of various hoofed mammals of the family Cervidae, which includes the deer and elk. Male cervids typically grow antlers that are shed yearly.

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cervidæ

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halfer

(Obsolete) One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares.

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mammal

Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, whose young feed on milk that is produced by the mother's mammary glands. Unlike other vertebrates, mammals have a diaphragm that separates the heart and lungs from the other internal organs, red blood cells that lack a nucleus, and usually hair or fur. All mammals but the monotremes bear live young. Mammals include rodents, cats, dogs, ungulates, cetaceans, and apes.

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ruminant

Any of various even-toed hoofed mammals of the suborder Ruminantia. Ruminants usually have a stomach divided into four compartments (called the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum), and chew a cud consisting of regurgitated, partially digested food. Ruminants include cattle, sheep, goats, deer, giraffes, antelopes, and camels.

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sore

An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.

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sorel

A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.

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buck(fawn

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red-deer

A deer (Cervus elaphus) native to Europe and Asia

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roe-deer (related)

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wild-boar (related)

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squirrel (related)

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mink (related)

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muntjac (related)

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sheep (related)

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hare (related)

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muntjak (related)

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red-grouse (related)

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cattle (related)

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boar (related)

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Muntiacus (related)

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pheasant (related)

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(male red deer) stag

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antelope hummel

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brocket

A two-year-old, male European red deer during its second stage of antler growth

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