Found 2 items, similar to venison.
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Definition: venison
venison
n : meat from a deer used as food
English → English (gcide)
Definition: venison
Deer
\Deer\ (d[=e]r), n. sing. & pl. [OE. der, deor, animal,
wild animal, AS. de['o]r; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G.
thier, tier, Icel. d[=y]r, Dan. dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of
unknown origin. [root]71.]
1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Mice and rats, and such small deer. --Shak.
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The camel, that great deer. --Lindisfarne
MS.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) A ruminant of the genus
Cervus, of many
species, and of related genera of the family
Cervid[ae].
The males, and in some species the females, have solid
antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually.
Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called
venison.
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Note: The deer hunted in England is
Cervus elaphus, called
also stag or
red deer; the fallow deer is
Cervus dama
; the common American deer is
Cervus Virginianus
; the blacktailed deer of Western North
America is
Cervus Columbianus; and the mule deer of
the same region is
Cervus macrotis. See
Axis,
Fallow deer,
Mule deer,
Reindeer.
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Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying,
deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc.
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Deer mouse (Zo["o]l.), the white-footed mouse (
Peromyscus leucopus
, formerly
Hesperomys leucopus) of America.
Small deer, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used
metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the
first definition, above.)
“Minor critics . . . can find
leisure for the chase of such small deer.” --G. P. Marsh.
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