(n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
(n. sing. & pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(3) No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses.
(4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(5) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(6) We conclude from this study that there is little or no seasonal photoperiodic entrainment of the antler and testicular cycles of males in this population of axis deer.
(7) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
(8) Although approximately 29% of the inoculum was recovered from the hepatic parenchyma of the sheep, F. hepatica was found in only one of six inoculated deer.
(9) Thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and alkaline phosphatase (AP) were assayed monthly in white-tailed deer plasma obtained from the antler (A), jugular (J), and the saphenous (S) veins during the period of antler growth and the period of mineralization.
(10) Naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been recognised in sheep, man, mink, captive deer and cattle.
(11) Seasonal levels of androstenedione and testosterone were investigated in plasma of mature intact and castrated male white-tailed deer.
(12) Rabbits were hyperimmunized using erythrocytes from either normal or Theileria infected deer.
(13) Adult F hepatica flukes were recovered from experimentally infected sheep and ESP obtained from the flukes; portions of liver were cut and frozen at -70 C. Fascioloides magna adults were collected from naturally infected white-tailed deer and ESP obtained; portions of liver were collected from noninfected white-tailed deer.
(14) Père David's deer hinds were treated with GnRH, administered as intermittent i.v.
(15) A technique for removing the pineal gland in adult and young male deer is described.
(16) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(17) The aim of this work was to determine whether a herpesvirus serologically related to bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1) may occur in a stressed white-tailed deer population.
(18) Our results indicated that analyses of helminth communities of deer from this geographical area do not provide a useful quantification technique for determining deer condition, degree of hybridization, or levels of intraspecific competition.
(19) This report, based on police records submitted to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet from 1987 through 1989, characterizes motor-vehicle collisions with deer in Kentucky.
(20) Unusual to see one around here until just recently.” More deer vaulted in front of my car on Yubari’s main street the following day, forcing a swerve.
Dere
Definition:
(v. t.) To hurt; to harm; to injure.
(n.) Harm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saint Laurent, who was born in Algeria, came to prominence in 1958, when, aged 21, he took over as head of Christian Dior following Dior's death.In the next two decades he revolutionised women's fashion, pioneering mini dresses, the trouser suit and le smoking, the square shoul dered tuxedo for women.
(2) We went down to Dering Street and took tea ... ' To complete a neat circle, 136 works by Beuys are at the centre of the collection d'Offay has sold back to Scotland.
(3) For landmark shows at his Dering Street gallery in the West End - his great Gwen John revival of the Seventies, for example - he routinely borrowed the best of an artist's work from the national collections to add depth to the work for sale.
(4) On the 8th day of the embryonal development deres pression of the LDH-B locus was observed to disappear during the oogenesis, being the result of progressive repression of locus LDH-A.
(5) Optimal control control strategies have been obtained for the use of two different promoters for the gene transcription, a dere-pressible SUC2 promoter and a strong glycolytic GPD promoter.
(6) Studied art history at Edinburgh University; married to his business partner, Anne; his son Timothy runs a teashop in his former gallery in Dering Street W1.
(7) When environmental temperature was raised from 74 to 80 derees F, large dramatic increases in adult TEWL were observed in contrast to small increases in newborns.
(8) The study of the effect of optimal doses on the resistance of muscle tissue to 0.12 M solution fluoride, 3.48 M ethyl alcohol and to 36 derees showed a statistically significant increase in resistance from 22.7 to 39.4%.
(9) Optimal binding was achieved in 2 hours at 25 degrees C for concanavalin A and at 4 derees C for ricinus communis agglutinin 120 and wheat germ agglutinin,and was also a function of the ratio of lectin protein to gamma-glutamyltransferase protein.
(10) · Best of times The 1980 opening of his second Dering Street gallery gave a London platform to Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter.
(11) 263, 6656-6664] and also transducin G protein alpha subunit Gt1 alpha [Raport, C. J., Dere, B.
(12) Even regular visitors to Dering Street would be lucky to be treated to a lifeless handshake from the man in the black cashmere jumper.