elk vs deer
Definitions
noun
- large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
- large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
- common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
Examples
Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century.
¶ Fresshe sturgyon, breme, perche in gelly, a Ioll of samon, sturgyon, and welkes; apples & peres rosted with suger candy.
It was wonderful, an Orkney village confronted with a swan, a selkie, and a dragon, and the consequences of allowing (or forcing) them to live among humans, as humans.
Definitions
noun
- distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
Examples
The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.
The auctioneer's podium faced a wall hung with six sets of mounted antlers each side of a large red deer's head.
Red Deer Catholic schools are publicly funded schools within the province of Alberta.
