cervus elaphus

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   common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

   Synonymsred deerelkAmerican elkwapiti

   Broaderdeer

   Narrowerharthindbrocket

   Part ofCervus

Questions about cervus elaphus

What does cervus elaphus mean?

cervus elaphus means "common deer of temperate Europe and Asia".

What is another word for cervus elaphus?

Close synonyms include red deer, elk, American elk, wapiti. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cervus elaphus a common word?

cervus elaphus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.