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What is a deer?

What is a deer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla.
  2. (in particular) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk.
  3. The meat of such an animal; venison.
  4. (obsolete, especially in the phrase "small deer") An animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal, as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
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I've taken an even dozen whitetail and mule deer bucks at ranges from 20 meters to a full 80, all of which were one-shot kills.
Also present are bog asphodel, deer grass and sedges such as slender sedge and bog sedge.
Native Americans hunted whitetail deer for colonists or offered food to them in exchange for manufactured goods from Europe.
Wolf, roe deer and wild boar roam these mountains and in the spring the capercaillie, king of the forest, screams his mating call.
Mammals such as weasels, foxes, stoats and especially roe deer can wander safely without the risk of being killed by traffic.
Point out that whitetail deer and elk populations are exploding and we respond that mule deer hunting isn't like it was.

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