English
Noun
roe deer (plural roe deer)
- A small, nimble Eurasian deer with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers (Capreolus capreolus).
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 84:
- Frightened by the noises approaching them from the rear, and and apprehensive of the human silence ahead, the five roe deer were halted, their heads high in nervous alertness.
Synonyms
Translations
small deer species, Capreolus capreolus
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- Lithuanian: stirna f
- Luxembourgish: Réi n
- Macedonian: срна (srna)
- Maltese: ċerfa
- Mazanderani: شوکا
- Norwegian: rådyr (no) n
- Occitan: cabiròl (oc), cabròl (oc)
- Persian: شوکا (fa) (šukâ)
- Polish: sarna (pl)
- Portuguese: corço (pt) m
- Romani: kaperiwara f
- Romanian: căprior (ro) m, căprioară (ro) f
- Romansch: chavriel
- Russian: косу́ля (ru) f (kosúlja)
- Northern Sami: (please verify)ruoigu, (please verify)vuovderuoigu
- Sardinian: crabiolu, bettu, betta, crabolu
- Scottish Gaelic: earb f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: срна f, срндаћ m
- Roman: srna (sh) f, srndać (sh) m
- Slovak: srna f
- Slovene: srna f, srnjak m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: sarna f
- Upper Sorbian: sarna f
- Spanish: corzo m
- Swedish: rådjur (sv)
- Turkish: karaca (tr)
- Ukrainian: козу́ля f (kozúlja)
- Venetian: caoriól, cavriól, cavriòło
- Welsh: iwrch (cy) m
- West Frisian: ree (fy)
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