deer vs Japanese deer

Japanese deer vs deer

deer and Japanese deer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deer	Yes	No	No	No
Japanese deer	Yes	No	No	No

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

deer: distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
Japanese deer: small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers

Other hyponyms of deer 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, 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.

deer (noun)	Japanese deer (noun)
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers	small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers

Difference between deer and Japanese deer

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