NOUN
- large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
- common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
How To Use American elk In A Sentence
- The American elk is one of the large deer which may also be called wapiti; the name is used of C. elephus or its subspecies in Asia.
- -- In nervous energy the species of the Deer Family vary all the way from the nervous and hysterical barasingha to the sensible and steady American elk that can successfully be driven in harness like a horse. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations