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Meanings of cervus elaphus canadensis in English

Portuguese
uapiti
Catalan
uapití
Spanish
cervus canadensis

Large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male.

        uapiti
        Synonyms
        Examples for "elk"
        Examples for "elk"
        1
        The animal making the easiest prey for the cougar is the elk.
        The Last of the Plainsmen
        2
        Then he quickly corrected himself, saying elk were, in fact, the target.
        Reuters
        3
        The men were engaged in hunting and jerking deer and elk meat.
        What I Saw in California / A Description of Its Soil, Climate, P...
        4
        There issued from the forest to the westward the stately Irish elk.
        The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
        5
        The elk bugles, the moose roars and bawls, in desire or defiance.
        The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observ...
        1
        The wapiti, like other deer, brings forth its fawns in the spring.
        The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North
        2
        The wapiti was carefully skinned, and the skin spread out to dry.
        The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North
        3
        Eight more wapiti were killed during the week, and fourteen smaller deer.
        In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado
        4
        Wolves don't often attack full-grown wapiti, except when wounded or crippled somehow.
        The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North
        5
        The extermination of the wapiti began with the settlement of the American colonies.
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
        1
        These we knew to be elk-thegreat American elk.
        The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderne...
        2
        The deer's flesh was sweet and tender, with a flavor like that of the American elk.
        Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
        Translations for cervus elaphus canadensis
        Portuguese
        uapiti
        Catalan
        uapití