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单词 red deer
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red deern.

Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈdɪə/, U.S. /ˌrɛd ˈdɪ(ə)r/
Forms: see red adj. and n. and deer n.; also Scottish pre-1700 redeir.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., deer n.
Etymology: < red adj. + deer n.
1. A large deer with a reddish-brown coat, Cervus elaphus, widely distributed in Europe, Asia, and part of North Africa, and introduced to New Zealand, typically inhabiting woodland but in Scotland found chiefly on moorland. Also: the meat of such a deer.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > Cervus elaphus (red deer)
red deera1425
olen1591
wawaskeesh1716
wapiti1810
Carolina Stag1859
Roosevelt wapiti1897
Manchurian wapiti1898
Roosevelt elk1902
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxv. 119 All shall be Jugged folie of reed deere [c1425 Vesp. B.xii rede deer] byneth herte, and falowe deer byneth þe bucke.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 712 There he chaced at the rede deare.
1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 373/1 A Reed Dere called an Hert.
1524 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 57 Item to a man for caryag off a pasty off redder fro Iohn agaunte [sc. an inn] to þe park..iijd.
1546 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 251 Or any red deare be fatt, it will be July, as far as my experience serves.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 55 Some doe suppose Venison of Fallow-Deere to be of a middle nature betweene the flesh of Red-Deere and of Weathers.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. ix. 75 They are good roasted, sodden, or baked as red Deer.
1710 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 23) 335 Woods which were once well stock'd with Red and Fallow Deer.
1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 17 The red deer, which toward the beginning of this century amounted to about five hundred head.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 327 A bit of red-deer venison.
1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. i. iii. 38 The herds of red-deer trooping away from the sound of wheels in the silent park.
1895 C. J. Cornish Wild Eng. Today 120 Every year the largest red-deer stags are caught and removed to Windsor Park.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 734 The giant deer..was a far grander creature than the noblest specimen of the red deer.
1974 W. Condry Woodlands xi. 119 A Scottish deer forest is not woodland but an area of treeless moorland and mountain, the typical habitat of red deer in Scotland.
2004 Trail May 109/2 Arctic hares and voles can both be spotted on the scree slopes below, and herds of red deer are often seen down in the valley.
2. North American. Any of several deer native to North America, esp. the white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus (now historical), and the wapiti, Cervus canadensis.The wapiti (or American elk) is often regarded as a subspecies of C. elaphus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Odocoileus > Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer)
fallow deer1584
red deer1584
whitetail1805
white-tailed deer1829
flagtail1895
Key deer1922
1584 R. Hakluyt tr. J. Cartier in Disc. Western Planting (1993) 23 There is greate store of stagges, redd dere, fallowe dere, beares, and other suche like store of beastes.
1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 29 Moos, a beast bigger than a Stagge; deere, red, and Fallow.
1672 W. Talbot tr. J. Lederer Discov. 21 The flowry Meads, whose luxurious herbage invites numerous herds of Red Deer (for their unusual largeness improperly termed Elks by ignorant people) to feed.
1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 55 There remains then the buffalo, red deer, fallow deer, wolf, roe, glutton,..and water rat.
1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. III. 172 Of deer there are three kinds—1. The common red deer [etc.].
1844 Animal Kingdom: Simplified Arrangem. Animal Hist. 59 The Wapiti or American Red Deer, somewhat resembles our Red Deer, but the horns grow to an enormous size, and the male is often dangerous to approach.
1904 D. W. Huntington Our Big Game App. 328 White tail.—Odocoileus Virginianus. Also called red-deer, from its summer coat, which is reddish.
1935 P. A. Rollins Discov. Oregon Trail (1995) 21 (note) The so-called Virginia deer or American red deer—existing in several specialized varieties, of which the first encounterable by him [sc. Robert Stuart] was the so-called Oregon white-tailed deer.
2013 R. Worth Baseball Team Names 212/2 The North American red deer is also called the North American elk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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