Meaning of giant deer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The extinct Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus, which lived during the Pleistocene.
2. 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!”

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