elkl (elk)

[ IMG:content-0329.jpg:[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small] 2. In America, the wapiti, Cervus can a dens is, a very different animal from the elk proper, representing the red deer or stag of Europe, C. elaphus. See wapiti and Alces.-3. In Asia, among the Anglo-Indians, some large rusine or rucervine deer or stag, as the sambur, Cervus aristo tel is. These, like the wapiti of America, are related more or le nearly to the red deer or stag, and are quite unlike the true elk and the moose. 4. Same as eland, 1.- Elk bark. See bark2.- Irish elk, the Cervus or Mega ceros hibernicus, a very large extinct elk, with enormous palmate antlers, the remains of which occur in the peat-bogs of Ireland.