cervine
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2ADJ.
fine
VERB + CERVINE
shaking
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adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of deer; deer-like.
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.’
noun
A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
The cervines are arguably Europe's greatest mammalian success story: the earliest type, Cervavitus, first appeared about 10 million years ago—in Europe.
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2To 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.’
WiktionaryThe cervines are arguably Europe's greatest mammalian success story: the earliest type, Cervavitus, first appeared about 10 million years ago—in Europe.
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