elaphine

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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.

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  1. Pertaining to the red deer, Cervus elaphus, or to that section of the genus Cervus which this species represents.

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  1. from New Latin elaphus, from Greek ε̆λαφος, a deer: see Elaphus.
 

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