cervid vs red deer

red deer vs cervid

cervid and red deer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cervid	Yes	No	No	No
red deer	Yes	No	No	No

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

cervid: distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
red deer: common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

Other hyponyms of cervid include pricket, fawn, American elk, Cervus elaphus, elk, 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, muntjac, Moschus moschiferus, musk deer, elaphure, Elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer.

cervid (noun)	red deer (noun)
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers	common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

Difference between cervid and red deer

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