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Definition of Deer

Deer

  1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
  2. A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.

Deer Quotations

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen DeGeneres

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
Ted Nugent

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
Paul Ryan

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont
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Deer Translations

deer in Afrikaans is hert
deer in Dutch is hert
deer in Finnish is hirvi
deer in French is cerf
deer in German is Reh
deer in Italian is capriolo
deer in Norwegian is hjort
deer in Portuguese is cervos
deer in Spanish is ciervo

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