deer vs mule deer

mule deer vs deer

deer and mule deer both are nouns.

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

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

deer: distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
mule deer: long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged 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, Japanese deer, sika, Odocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white-tailed deer, white tail, whitetail, whitetail deer, burro 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)	mule deer (noun)
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers	long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers

Difference between deer and mule deer

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