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deer

deer [ deer ] (plural deer)


noun 
Definition:
 
animal typically with antlers: an animal distinguished by the branched antlers on males. More than forty species of deer exist, of different sizes and with different markings, and they are found wild on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. Family Cervidae.

[ Old English dēor "animal" < Germanic, "breathing creature" < Indo-European, "breath, vapor"]

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