Deer modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German "Tier" and Norwegian "dyr" mean "animal". For many types of deer in modern English usage, the male is a "buck" and the female a "doe", but the terms vary with dialect, and according to the size of the species. The male red deer is a "stag", while for other large species the male is a "bull", the female a "cow", as in cattle. In older usage, the male of any species is a "hart", especially if over five years old, and the female is a
Deer "hind", especially if three or more years old. The young of small species is a "fawn" and of large species a "calf"; a very small young may be a "kid". A castrated male is a "havier". A group of any species is a "herd". The adjective of relation is ""; like the family name "Cervidae", this is from , meaning "stag" or "deer". Deer Deer (singular and plural) are the hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the fallow deer and the chital, and the Capreolinae, including