water deer

Questions about water deer

What is another word for water deer?

It depends which water deer you mean. In the sense “largest chevrotain; of marshy areas of west Africa”, the synonyms are water chevrotain, Hyemoschus aquaticus. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of water deer?

WordNet records no antonym for water deer. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for water deer come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of water deer

• Full entry for water deerAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for water deerWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.