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6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
originBy surface analysis, an appellativization from Cervid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin cerv(us) (“deer”) + -id.
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