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Wapiti

noun

Large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male. Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, elk.

Common deer of temperate Europe and Asia. Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, elk, red deer.

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... Neurotrichus. The giant salamander of the rivers of China and Japan and the Chinese mandarin duck are by some included in the same genera as their American representatives, while by others they are referred to genera apart. Whichever view we take does not alter their close relationship. One wapiti occurs on the Tibetan frontier, and others ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various

... may seem, our salt is always in the last resort obtained from the material held in solution in some ancient or modern sea. Even the saline springs of Canada and the Northern States of America, where the wapiti love to congregate, and the noble hunter lurks in the thicket to murder them unperceived, derive their saltness, as an able Canadian geologist has shown, from the thinly scattered salts still retained among the sediments of that very ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

Words linked to "Wapiti" : red deer, cervid, stag, Cervus, deer, genus Cervus, hart, Cervus elaphus canadensis, American elk, elk, hind, brocket, Cervus elaphus