Deer vs Kangaroo - What's the difference?
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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 .
The meat of such an animal; venison.
A beast, especially a quadruped and especially a mammal, as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
* (rfdate) William Shakespeare, King Lear , Act III. IV:
A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
* 1770 , (James Cook), Journal , 4 August 1770 [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8106]:
* 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis :
(Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.
To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
To hunt kangaroo.
As nouns the difference between deer and kangaroo
is that 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 while kangaroo is a member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.As a verb kangaroo is
to practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.deer
English
Noun
(en-noun) (wikipedia deer)- I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.
- Oh, I've never had deer before.
- 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)kangaroo
English
(wikipedia kangaroo)Noun
(en noun)- Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo', or ' Kanguru […].
- In the woods are the kanguroo , the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].