Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the red deer, Cervus elaphus, or to that section of the genus Cervus which this species represents.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or
Cervus elaphus .
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- adjective zoology Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the
stag , Cervus elaphus.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The next stage from the rusine to the cervine or elaphine type is the rucervine.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The next phase of development of which we have examples in India is the true cervine or elaphine type of horn in which the brow-tine is doubled by the addition of the bez; the royal is greatly enlarged at the expense of the tres-tine, and breaks out into the branches known as the sur-royals.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The deer with which we have to deal range from the elaphine, or red deer type, to the simple bifurcated antler of the muntjac, which consists of a beam and brow antler only.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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