harts

Mature red stags

Harts is the plural of hart, an adult male deer, especially a red deer.

The word is archaic or literary, appearing mainly in old texts, heraldry, and place names like Hartford and Hartlepool.

The harts fled into the forest.

deer

stags

Adult male deer

red deer · venison · rut · forest · game · hunting · fallow · roebuck · woodland · trophy

heraldry

crest

Highest point or tuft

rampant · lodge · badge · nobility · escutcheon · blazon · armorial · symbol · device · bearing

literary

hunt

Pursuit of quarry

noble · medieval · romance · allegory · pursuit · symbolism · poetry · chivalry · enchanted · mythic

Opposites
sex/gender in deer

hartshinds

Adult female deer

does · cows

maturity in male deer

hartsfawns

Flatters obsequiously

yearlings · calves · young bucks

Phrases
Family

hartebeest, hart

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