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noun

• Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
  • synonyms: cervid

• (n.sing.&pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
• (n.sing.&pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.