elk, moose, Alces alces
(noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called ‘elk’ in Europe and ‘moose’ in North America
Source: WordNet® 3.1
moose (plural moose or mooses or meese)
(US, Canada) The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.
(informal) An ugly person.
• The usual plural of moose is moose; compare the names of many animals, such as deer and fish, which are also invariant. Other plurals are rare and nonstandard: mooses (with the usual English plural-forming suffix -s) and meese (jocularly formed by analogy to goose → geese).
• (largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus)): elk (British), Newfoundland speed bump (Canadian)
moose
(US, military, slang) An Asian girl taken as a lover.
Moose (plural Mooses)
(slang, derogatory) A Muslim.
Source: Wiktionary
Moose, n. Etym: [A native name; Knisteneaux mouswah; Algonquin monse. Mackenzie.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: 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 zoölogists is considered the same species. See Elk. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See Whisky jack.
– Moose deer. Same as Moose.
– Moose yard (Zoöl.), a locality where moose, in winter, herd together in a forest to feed and for mutual protection.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
