cervid vs roe deer

roe deer vs cervid

cervid and roe deer both are nouns.

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

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

cervid: distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
roe deer: small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers

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, caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer, brocket, barking deer, muntjac, Moschus moschiferus, musk deer, elaphure, Elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer.

cervid (noun)	roe deer (noun)
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers	small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers

Difference between cervid and roe deer

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