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# deer

«deer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wild animal with long thin legs and brown fur that eats…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a deer, deer — plural is the same)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A deer is a wild animal with long thin legs and brown fur that eats plants and runs fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#m1)

2) Male deer (stags or bucks) often have antlers, which fall off and grow back each year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In nature and science lessons, deer are mammals and herbivores that live in forests and fields in North America, Britain, Ireland and New Zealand; they are prey for wolves and mountain lions. Kinds include red deer, roe deer, white-tailed deer and reindeer (caribou). In safety, deer can jump into roads, especially at dawn and dusk; and do not go near deer in the mating season, or near a mother with a fawn. Phrases: a herd of deer, baby deer (fawn), deer park.

### examples

- We saw a deer at the edge of the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#x1)
- A herd of deer was grazing in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#x2)
- The stag has big antlers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#x3)
- A baby deer is called a fawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#x4)
- Two deer ran across the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#x5)
- Reindeer are a kind of deer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#x6)
- Deer eat grass, leaves and acorns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#x7)
- Watch out for deer when driving at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#x8)
- Another's stray shot had killed the deer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/#x9)

### note

Plural is the same: one deer, two deer (not «deers»). Do not confuse with «dear» (loved, or expensive), which sounds the same. Male: stag or buck; female: doe or hind; baby: fawn. Meat from deer is venison.

### In the corpora

- [Reindeer are the only deer in which both males and females usually grow antlers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/17/)
- [Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/11/)
- [Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/16/)
- [So deer have antlers, not horns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/5/)
- [A poison that only makes a deer feel sick can be very dangerous for a small child.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.