MOOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moose mean? 

• MOOSE (noun)
  The noun MOOSE has 1 sense:

1. large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called 'elk' in Europe and 'moose' in North America

  Familiarity information: MOOSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called 'elk' in Europe and 'moose' in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Alces alces; elk; moose

Hypernyms ("moose" is a kind of...):

cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)

Holonyms ("moose" is a member of...):

Alces; genus Alces (elk or moose)

 Context examples 

As the moose were coming into the land, other kinds of life were coming in.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was at the cutting-up of a moose, fresh-killed, that White Fang learned of the changed relations in which he stood to the dog-world.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

No such deer exist anywhere else upon earth, for the moose or elks which I have seen would hardly have reached its shoulders.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ever was he a mighty hunter, and ever did he bring thee the good back-fat and the sweet dried tongues of the moose and the caribou.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

CWD is a type of brain-damaging and fatal prion disease found in deer, elk and moose; in humans, prion diseases can take more than a decade to develop.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)

A band of twenty moose had crossed over from the land of streams and timber, and chief among them was a great bull.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Moose were scarce, the rabbits almost disappeared, hunting and preying animals perished.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I nearly ate him once, over on Little Fish River," Miller volunteered grimly. "If I hadn't got a moose that day was all that saved 'm."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

At last, at the end of the fourth day, he pulled the great moose down.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But on the near bank, shortly before dark, a moose coming down to drink, had been espied by Kloo-kooch, who was Grey Beaver's squaw.

(White Fang, by Jack London)