Large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male.
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Examples for "elk "
Examples for "elk "
1 The animal making the easiest prey for the cougar is the elk .
2 Then he quickly corrected himself, saying elk were, in fact, the target.
3 The men were engaged in hunting and jerking deer and elk meat.
4 There issued from the forest to the westward the stately Irish elk .
5 The elk bugles, the moose roars and bawls, in desire or defiance.
1 The wapiti , like other deer, brings forth its fawns in the spring.
2 The wapiti was carefully skinned, and the skin spread out to dry.
3 Eight more wapiti were killed during the week, and fourteen smaller deer.
4 Wolves don't often attack full-grown wapiti , except when wounded or crippled somehow.
5 The extermination of the wapiti began with the settlement of the American colonies.
1 These we knew to be elk-thegreat American elk .
2 The deer's flesh was sweet and tender, with a flavor like that of the American elk .
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Translations for cervus elaphus canadensis