Moose
[muːs] or [mus]
Definition
(n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Elk, moose-deer (Cervus alces or Alces malchis).
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Definition
n. the largest deer of America resembling the European elk.
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Examples
- In a snowstorm you rode up to a moose and he mistook your horse for another moose and trotted forward to meet you. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- American game of all kinds are kept here, from buffalo, elk, and moose to the smaller and more timid varieties, and there has been a rapid increase. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After the beginning of October, it is pointed out, the evidence before the Committee should keep him so busy explaining and denying that the country will not hear much Bull Moose doctrine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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