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Red deer

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in Alberta, Canada, the centre of Red Deer County.
Noun
  1. 1
    A species of large deer, Cervus elaphus, found in Europe and southwestern Asia.
  2. 2
    common deer of temperate Europe and Asia wordnet
  3. 3
    The wapiti or North American elk, Cervus canadensis, a deer species of North America, long believed to be a subspecies of the European red deer.

Etymology

Translation of Cree ᐘᐢᑲᓲ ᓰᐱᕀ (waskasoo siipiy, “elk creek”), mistranslated by British fur traders as “red deer river” after mistaking elk for European red deer. The mistranslated name was used to name the Red Deer River which served as the namesake for the original settlement.

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