| 单词 | irish deer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIrish deer Irish deer n. (more fully giant Irish deer, great Irish deer) = Irish elk n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > extinct types Irish deer1697 Irish elk1792 megaceros1844 1697 T. Molyneux in Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 505 We shall not have the least Reason to question but these vastly large Irish Deer and the American Moose, were certainly one and the same sort of Animal. 1811 J. Bigland & J. Morse Geogr. & Hist. View World (1812) II. 107 It has..been demonstrated, that the enormous Irish deer in question must have been nearly twelve feet high. 1844 Rep. 13th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1843 238 Mr. Parkinson refers the beams of two antlers found in the till at Walton in Essex, on account of their large size, to the great Irish Deer. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 733 Its remains have been found so abundantly in the peat-bogs of Ireland that it is always called the Irish deer. 1992 A. Goudie Environm. Change (ed. 3) iv. 140 The Giant Irish Deer (Megaceros giganteus) attained an antler span of up to 3.4m. < as lemmas |
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