deer
[dɪr]
n. 鹿

1. The white-lipped deer are rare in this area.
   白唇鹿很罕见。
2. The moose looks like deer.
   鹿看去像鹿。
3. The deer lowered its head to drink from the pond.
   鹿低头去喝塘里。

deer
[ noun ]
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
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Deer \Deer\ (d[=e]r), n. sing. & pl. [OE. der, deor, animal,
wild animal, AS. de['o]r; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G.
thier, tier, Icel. d[=y]r, Dan. dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of
unknown origin. [root]71.]
1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Mice and rats, and such small deer. --Shak.

The camel, that great deer. --Lindisfarne
MS.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A ruminant of the genus {Cervus}, of many
species, and of related genera of the family {Cervid[ae]}.
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}.

Note: The deer hunted in England is {Cervus elaphus}, called
also stag or {red deer}; the fallow deer is {Cervus
dama}; the common American deer is {Cervus
Virginianus}; the blacktailed deer of Western North
America is {Cervus Columbianus}; and the mule deer of
the same region is {Cervus macrotis}. See {Axis},
{Fallow deer}, {Mule deer}, {Reindeer}.

Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying,
deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc.

{Deer mouse} (Zo["o]l.), the white-footed mouse ({Peromyscus
leucopus}, formerly {Hesperomys leucopus}) of America.

{Small deer}, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used
metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the
first definition, above.) ``Minor critics . . . can find
leisure for the chase of such small deer.'' --G. P. Marsh.