cervine

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.’

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.