elk
elk
- n large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
- n large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
- n common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
- Too many bull elk are being killed in the fall hunting season.
- A bull elk bugles as a tourist takes a photograph in Mammoth, Wyoming on September 25, 2007.
- Federal biologists also dismiss claims that wolves, left uncontrolled, will decimate a state's elk and deer populations.