Definition of cervid Cervid

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What does cervid mean?

WordNet

Noun
cervid - distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
		deer
		ruminant any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
		cervidae, family cervidae deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer
		antler deciduous horn of a member of the deer family
		scut a short erect tail
		flag a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
		pricket male deer in his second year
		fawn a young deer
		cervus elaphus, red deer, american elk, wapiti, elk common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
		cervus unicolor, sambar, sambur a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
		cervus elaphus canadensis, american elk, wapiti, elk large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
		cervus nipon, cervus sika, japanese deer, sika small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers
		odocoileus virginianus, virginia deer, white-tailed deer, white tail, whitetail, whitetail deer common North American deer; tail has a white underside
		burro deer, mule deer, odocoileus hemionus long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers
		alces alces, european elk, moose, elk large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
		dama dama, fallow deer small Eurasian deer
		capreolus capreolus, roe deer small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers
		caribou, greenland caribou, rangifer tarandus, reindeer Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America
		brocket male red deer in its second year
		barking deer, muntjac small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark
		moschus moschiferus, musk deer small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk
		elaphure, elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds