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prettygoodwordcervine (SUR-vayn) - adj., of, relating to, or resembling a deer; of a deep tawny color.
So you can have a cervine unicorn (as opposed to an equine one) or cervine slippers (as opposed to beige ones). Borrowed around 1830 from Latin cervīnus, of a deer, from cervus, deer, stag.
---L.
So you can have a cervine unicorn (as opposed to an equine one) or cervine slippers (as opposed to beige ones). Borrowed around 1830 from Latin cervīnus, of a deer, from cervus, deer, stag.
---L.
