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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large extinct deer of the genus Megaloceros of the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene Epochs, having very large palmate antlers. Many fossil remains have been found in Irish peat bogs.
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