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Cervine vs Rusine - What's the difference?

cervine | rusine |

As adjectives the difference between cervine and rusine

is that cervine is pertaining to a deer; deer-like while rusine is of, like, or relating to, a deer of the genus genus: Rusa.

cervine

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 495:
    • To which she replied sweetly, shaking that fine cervine head: ‘At any moment tell yourself that things are much better that they have any right to be.’
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    rusine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (zoology) Of, like, or relating to, a deer of the genus .
  • (zoology, of an antler) Having the brow tine simple, and the beam forked at the tip.
    • (Webster 1913)