deer vs wapiti

deer and wapiti both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of deer include pricket, fawn, American elk, Cervus elaphus, elk, red deer, Cervus unicolor, sambar, sambur, American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, elk, 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.

deer (noun)	wapiti (noun)
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers	large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
	common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

Difference between deer and wapiti

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