a. [ad. L. cervīn-us, f. cervus, cerva deer. In F. cervin.] Of or belonging to deer, or to the family Cervidæ; of the nature of or resembling deer. Also absol. = cervine animal.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., VI. 149/2. The solitary exception in favour of the cervines is at the Easter hunt.
1858. Beveridge, Hist. India, I. Introd. 11. The Nepal stag, and many other varieties of the cervine tribe.
1880. Dawkins, Early Man, iv. 88. The cervine antler … becomes more complex.
b. Of a deep tawny color (see quot.).
1866. Treas. Bot., Cervine, deep tawny, such as the dark part of a lion’s hide.
