cervineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsəːvʌɪn/

形容詞

cervine (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of deer (in the broad sense).

   Synonyms: deerish, deerlike, cervoid

   Near-synonym: cervid (in attributive use)

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 495:

     To which she replied sweetly, shaking that fine cervine head: ‘At any moment tell yourself that things are much better that they have any right to be.’

   1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of deer in the narrow sense, that is, Cervinae, Capreolinae, or similar.

名詞

cervine (plural cervines)

1. (loosely, informal) Any cervid/true deer.

   Synonym: deer (cervid sense)

   Hypernyms: deer (broad sense) < ungulate < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: caprine, caprid, bovine, bovid

   1. (zoology, agriculture) A deer of the subfamily Cervinae, also idiomatically called the Old World deer in English (even though that term is a misnomer).

      Hypernyms: cervid, true deer, deer (cervid sense) < deer (broad sense) < ungulate < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

      Coordinate term: bovine

      • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 106:

        The cervines are arguably Europe's greatest mammalian success story: the earliest type, Cervavitus, first appeared about 10 million years ago—in Europe.

アナグラム

• evernic, revince

形容詞

cervīne

1. vocative masculine singular of cervīnus