hind
noun/haɪnd/
/haɪnd/
- a female deer, especially a red deer; a doe compare hartTopics Animalsc2Word Originnoun Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hinde and German Hinde, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘hornless’, shared by Greek kemas ‘young deer’.
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