| deer | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. cervid, deer | distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers. |
| ~ antler | deciduous horn of a member of the deer family. |
| ~ scut | a short erect tail. |
| ~ flag | a conspicuously marked or shaped tail. |
| ~ ruminant | any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments. |
| ~ cervidae, family cervidae | deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer. |
| ~ pricket | male deer in his second year. |
| ~ fawn | a young deer. |
| ~ cervus elaphus, red deer, american elk, wapiti, elk | 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 elaphus canadensis, wapiti, elk | large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male. |
| ~ cervus nipon, cervus sika, japanese deer, sika | small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers. |
| ~ odocoileus virginianus, virginia deer, white-tailed deer, white tail, whitetail, whitetail deer | common North American deer; tail has a white underside. |
| ~ burro deer, mule deer, odocoileus hemionus | long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers. |
| ~ alces alces, elk, european elk, moose | large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America. |
| ~ dama dama, fallow deer | small Eurasian deer. |
| ~ capreolus capreolus, roe deer | small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers. |
| ~ caribou, greenland caribou, rangifer tarandus, reindeer | Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America. |
| ~ brocket | small South American deer with unbranched antlers. |
| ~ barking deer, muntjac | small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark. |
| ~ moschus moschiferus, musk deer | small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk. |
| ~ elaphure, elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer | large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds. |
| ~ withers | the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals. |
| nosedive | | |
| n. (process) | 1. nosedive | a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline.; "the stock took a nosedive" |
| ~ decline, diminution | change toward something smaller or lower. |
| n. (act) | 2. dive, nose dive, nosedive | a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft. |
| ~ descent | the act of changing your location in a downward direction. |
| ~ power dive | a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine. |
| v. (motion) | 3. nosedive | plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft. |
| ~ air travel, aviation, air | travel via aircraft.; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air" |
| ~ dive, plunge, plunk | drop steeply.; "the stock market plunged" |
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