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JAPANESE DEER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers
Synonyms:
Cervus nipon; Cervus sika; Japanese deer; sika
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Japanese deer" is a kind of...):
cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)
Holonyms ("Japanese deer" is a member of...):
Cervus; genus Cervus (the type genus of the Cervidae)