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Meanings of irish elk in English
Russian
большерогий олень Portuguese
alce irlandês Catalan
megaloceros giganteus Spanish
megaloceros giganteus 
Extinct species of cervid (deer/elk)
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Examples for "megaloceros giganteus"
Examples for "megaloceros giganteus"
1
The male Megaloceros giganteus is the pride of Irish palaeontology, with a skeleton nearly three metres high from hooves to tine-tips.
2
The skull and antlers of a Megaloceros giganteus (also known as the Irish elk) had been lying forgotten and gathering dust for years.
1
The giant deer were browsing on the tender young leaves of low-growing brush.
2
He had fed on the giant deer brought by his lioness.
3
Except for giant deer and reindeer, most deer don't travel in herds at all.
4
We have had good hunting, and a herd of giant deer are coming this way.
5
Ayla nodded, not quite sure how a disguise would be used to hunt giant deer.
1
The antlers, which are 11ft wide, are thought to be from a Great Irish Deer.
2
The Irish Deer Society has called for the complete closure of the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
3
The Leinster branch of the Irish Deer Society is holding its annual open day in the Phoenix Park tomorrow.
4
They pay no attention to the tall man being photographed nearby beside the skeleton of a giant Irish deer.
5
For instance, it becomes possible to follow the Giant Irish Deer from dominance to extinction and later rediscovery as ancient remains during Elizabethan times.
Usage of irish elk in English
1
There issued from the forest to the westward the stately Irish elk.
2
The Cervus Americanus found in Kentucky was as large as the Irish elk, which it greatly resembled.
3
The Irish elk ignored this creeping revolution.
4
Irish Elk, an example of co-adaptation.
5
The Irish Elk antlers were withdrawn at €7,000 but are under negotiation.
6
Mammoths, mastodons, and Irish elks, now extinct, must have lived down to human, if not almost to historic times.
7
The Irish elk roamed the earth 10,000 years ago.
8
In an excerpt from his latest book, Michael Viney examines the history and demise of the great Irish elk and deer.
9
Dick Ahlstrom reports A 100-year debate over the extinct Irish elk, the largest deer to have lived, has finally been settled.
10
The misnamed giant Irish elk was not an elk at all and its nearest living relative is the pint-sized fallow deer.
11
They've taken the skeleton of the Great Irish Elk out of the peat, set it up, an astounding crate full of air.
12
If there is to be a returning, why not at once put in a claim on the part of the Irish Elk?
13
Our prehistoric ancestors hunted the mammoth, the woolly-haired rhinoceros, and Irish elk; the ancient Britons had the wild ox, the deer, and the wolf.
14
For decades there has been argument over whether the Irish elk was more closely related to the modern red deer, or the fallow deer.
15
A LIFESIZE bronze of the great Irish elk, which became extinct 5,000 years ago, today stands bereft of its maleness.
16
The great Irish Elk is calculated by Prof. Owen to have cast off and renewed, annually in its antlers eighty pounds of bone.]
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