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GENUS CERVUS

• GENUS CERVUS (noun)
The noun GENUS CERVUS has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Cervidae

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• GENUS CERVUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Cervidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cervus; genus Cervus

Hypernyms ("genus Cervus" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cervus"):

Cervus elaphus; red deer (common deer of temperate Europe and Asia)

Cervus unicolor; sambar; sambur (a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines)

American elk; Cervus canadensis; wapiti (large North American deer with large much-branched antlers)

Cervus nipon; Cervus sika; Japanese deer; sika (small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers)

Holonyms ("genus Cervus" is a member of...):

Cervidae; family Cervidae (deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer)

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