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deer | deers |

As a noun 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 .

As an acronym deers is

(us).

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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    deers

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (dated, or, nonstandard)
  • * 1984 , Justin Wilson, Howard Jacobs, More Cajun Humor , page 79,
    • “Not dem kinda deers , dese de kine wit? antling.”
    She say, “I?m goin? witcha.”
    He say, “I'll be damned, iss not?ing but a dirty ol? men's camp an? you can?t go.”
    Well, she bawled an? squalled and raise some sand, but he went to hont dem deers .
  • * 2001 , William Arnett, Emmer Sewell'', Paul Arnett, William Arnett (editors), ''Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South , Volume 2, page 191,
    • “They there to scare the deers' away from the garden. ' Deers , they slip in here at night and make a mess eating up things,” she says.
  • * 2006 , Phil Bowie, Guns , page 296,
    • “I thought he used to be a hunter or something,” Hardin said.
    “If you call shooting deers in some kind of deer zoo great sport,” Sarah said.
    Usage notes
    Modern usage is likely to be regarded as an error or indicative of nonstandard speech. The standard (irregular) plural is deer. Occasionally used in the sense of more than one species, especially when appearing in combination (such as red deer / red deers).

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