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Definition of Capreolus
1. Noun. Roe deer.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Cervidae, Family Cervidae
Member holonyms: Capreolus Capreolus, Roe Deer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capreolus
Literary usage of Capreolus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1831)
"Sub-Genus capreolus. 947. A single horn of the Tartarian Roe. Young. ...
Cervus capreolus—Lin: (capreolus Dorcas—Gesn : i Chevreuil de L'Europe—Cuv:) Fig. ..."
2. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"capreolus capr<ea. THE ROE DEER The deer are often divided by zoologists into
two groups, both, unfortunately, with very long names. ..."
3. The Entertaining Naturalist: Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and by Loudon (Jane) (1850)
"THE ROEBUCK (Cerous capreolus) Is one of the least of the Deer kind known in
these climates, being not above three feet in length, and two in height, ..."
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