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Cervus

noun
1.
The type genus of the Cervidae.  Synonym: genus Cervus.



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... (Dublin, 1861), pp. 209, 300; John Rhys's "Hibbert Lectures" (London, 1888), p. 551. The latter thinks the hero identical with Taliessin, as well as with Ossian, and says that the word Ossin means "a little fawn," from "os," "cervus." (See also O'Curry, p. 304.) O'Looney represents that it was a stone which Usheen threw to show his strength, and Joyce follows this view; but another writer in the same volume of the Ossianic Society transactions (p. 233) makes it a bag of sand, and Yeats follows this version. It is also ...
— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson



Words linked to "Cervus" :   Japanese deer, sika, sambar, Cervus elaphus canadensis, American elk, family Cervidae, wapiti, elk, sambur, Cervidae, red deer, Cervus unicolor, mammal genus



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