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Meaning of giant deer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The extinct Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus, which lived during the Pleistocene.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see giant, deer.

Examples

“Countless fossils of the giant deer have been unearthed from Ireland's peat bogs, and it seems that in the nineteenth century no Irish baronial manor was complete without the skull of an ‘Irish elk’ in the entrance hall.”

“They came to a bend in the trail and started around a big tree, when suddenly they came face to face with a giant deer—with two antlers, each the size of a big dog!”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

giant elk giant elliptical galaxy giant emerald pill millipede giant fennel giant forest genet giant forest hog