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Camel vs Deer - What's the difference?

camel | deer |

As nouns the difference between camel and deer

is that camel is a beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus while deer is a ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla.

camel

English

(wikipedia camel)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus .
  • A light brownish color, tan.
  • Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of a another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.

    • Synonyms

    * (mammal) oont (India)

    Coordinate terms

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    Related terms

    * Bactrian camel * camelback * cameleer * camelopard * camel toe * ship of the desert

    See also

    * alpaca * arabian * bray * dromedary * guanaco * hump * llama *

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    deer

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun) (wikipedia deer)
  • A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae'', or one of several similar animals from related families of the order ''Artiodactyla .
  • (lb) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose'' or ''elk .
    • I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.
  • The meat of such an animal; venison.
    • Oh, I've never had deer before.
  • A beast, especially a quadruped and especially a mammal, as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
  • * (rfdate) William Shakespeare, King Lear , Act III. IV:
    • But mice and rats and such small deer , have been Tom's food for seven long year.

    Hyponyms

    * buck, stag (male deer) * doe (female deer) * fawn (young deer) * hart (adult deer)

    Derived terms

    * deerfly * deerlike * deer ked * deer's tongue * (Bactrian deer) * (Bawean deer) * (black-tailed deer) * (Calamian deer) * (Corsican red deer) * (vern, Eld's deer) * (European red deer) * fallow deer * (Formosan deer) * (Indian hog deer) * (Indochinese hog deer) * (Maral deer) * marsh deer * (Mindanao mountain deer) * (Mindoro deer) * mouse deer * mule deer * musk deer * pampas deer * * (vern, Prince Alfred's deer) * red deer * reindeer * roe deer * rusa deer * Schomburgk's deer * (sika deer) * (vern, Thorold's deer) * (Tsushima Island deer) * (Vietnamese deer) * (water deer) * white-tailed deer * (Yarkand deer)

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