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Addax vs Deer - What's the difference?

addax | deer |

As nouns the difference between addax and deer

is that addax is a large African antelope (species: Addax nasomaculatus), with long horns, that lives in the desert 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.

addax

English

(wikipedia addax)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A large African antelope (
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 53:
  • *:In her hand, the haunch of an addax , still hissing from the spit.

    • 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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