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Webster 1913 Edition
Cervine
Cer′vine
,Adj.
[L.
cervinus
, fr. cervus
deer: cf. F. cervin
.] (Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family
Cervidæ
. Definition 2024
cervine
cervine
English
Adjective
cervine (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 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.’
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 495: