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Definition of Red deer

1. Noun. Common deer of temperate Europe and Asia.

Definition of Red deer

1. Noun. Browsing mammal, animal with antlers, ''Cervus elaphus''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Deer

Literary usage of Red deer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"Additional Notes on the Birds of red deer, Alberta.—In Mr. Taverner's article on the Birds of red deer (The Auk, 1919) he invites further information on ..."

2. The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants: Being a Description of by Richard Irving Dodge (1876)
"The black-tailed deer is considerably larger than the red deer, ... Its tail, unlike the broad white flag of the red deer, is rather thinly haired, ..."

3. The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants: Being a Description of by Richard Irving Dodge (1876)
"The black-tailed deer is considerably larger than the red deer, ... Its tail, unlike the broad white flag of the red deer, is rather thinly haired, ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"red deer, or Stag, the common deer (Cervus elephas) of Europe and western Asia ... In the British Islands the wild red deer remains only in the Highlands of ..."

5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1898)
"Taking the red-deer as the typical representative of a great group of Cervidae, which are spread ... The group of allied species would include the red-deer ..."

6. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1906)
"Through the sun-bright morning woods — the scent of the red deer before, the baying of the pack and the shouts -of the huntsmen behind ! ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"red deer, or STAG, the common deer (Cervus elephas) of Europe and western Asia ... In the British islands the wild red deer remains only in the Highlands of ..."

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