Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of deer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to deer, or animals of the family Cervidæ.
- Of a deep-tawny or fawn color; dun.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family
Cervidæ .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or resembling deer
Etymologies
- From Latin cervīnus, from cervus ("deer"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin cervīnus, from cervus, deer; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“On cervine carbon-fibre pins, she is a paralympic runner.”
“If you insist on using a cervine as a perjorative, may I suggest the shiftless caribou?”
“But, for the time being, this cervine creature will not be seen in cyberspace.”
“Moose, as well as other members of the cervine family, live mostly on the shoots of trees, but they die mostly by the shoots of hunters.”
“-- A horse-like animal at the first glance, owing to its lean head, long, flat, and deep neck, and high withers, but with cervine hind-quarters, lower than in front.”
“There are many other points also, such as the fawns being spotted, some intestinal peculiarities, and the molar and premolar teeth being strictly cervine, which strengthen him in his opinion.”
“The true cervine type of horn I have already described in its progress from youth to age.”
“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.”
“The next stage from the rusine to the cervine or elaphine type is the rucervine.”
“It was a magnificent cervine army with white banners, and I shall never look upon its like again.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cervine’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Animal Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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Beastly adjectives
How would you describe your brother-in-law? Is he a tad bovine? Maybe there is something lacertilian about him? Or his business practices seem a little percesocine to you.
dasyproctine, tolypeutine, asinine, feline, canine, eusuchian, simian, musteline, cervine, caprine, percesocine, hirudine and 227 more...
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Resource
katabatic, clerestory, haslet, alpenglow, purl, scumble, jessant, spavined, wayworn, creach, dottle, solferino and 165 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Animal-ine
feline, leonine, vulpine, canine, ranine, elephantine, serpentine, cervine, ovine, porcine, aquinine, asinine and 171 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Lyrical Listing
Words I find personally pleasing either in letter arrangement, sound, or meaning.
dulcet, seraphic, opalescent, abattoir, nonpareil, love-philtre, cervine, dalliance, skylark, svelte, palindrome, evenfall and 54 more...
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New Words '08
Those items I added to my vocabulary in 2008.
sternutation, telluric, faience, cynosure, gracile, meed, seriation, lithic, dendrochronology, cervine, riverine, amphitrite and 3 more...
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Odessa's Words
defenestration, decathect, effulgent, taciturn, ataraxia, coprophagous, nyctitropic, pernicious, paradox, anachronism, synesthesia, cacophony and 223 more...
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Animal Adjectives
Words like porcine and bovine. I'm collecting them.
porcine, bovine, corvine, ovine, vulpine, feline, canine, lupine, ursine, equine, vespine, oscine and 10 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cervine.
emily_morine Deer-like. Dec 8, 2006