cervid vs muntjac

muntjac vs cervid

cervid and muntjac both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cervid	Yes	No	No	No
muntjac	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, muntjac is a hyponym of cervid; that is, muntjac is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cervid:

cervid: distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
muntjac: small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark

Other hyponyms of cervid include pricket, fawn, American elk, Cervus elaphus, elk, red deer, wapiti, Cervus unicolor, sambar, sambur, American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, elk, wapiti, Cervus nippon, Cervus sika, Japanese deer, sika, Odocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white-tailed deer, white tail, whitetail, whitetail deer, burro deer, mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus, Alces alces, elk, moose, Dama dama, fallow deer, Capreolus capreolus, roe deer, caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer, brocket, barking deer, Moschus moschiferus, musk deer, elaphure, Elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer.

cervid (noun)	muntjac (noun)
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers	small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark

Difference between cervid and muntjac

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