Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The genus of large extinct Cervidæ of which the Irish elk is the type, having immense palmated antlers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) The Irish elk.
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- noun paleontology The Irish elk.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The endemic Nile lechwe (Kobus megaceros) also occurs in this ecoregion, numbering about 30-40,000 individuals.
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They were both grateful for their Mamutoi rain parkas, made of dehaired deer hides, Jondalar's from megaceros, the giant deer of the steppes, and Ayla's from the northern reindeer.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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In the warmer seasons, bison, aurochs, and every variety of deer, from the giant megaceros to small shy roe deer, were numerous, but only reindeer stayed on in winter.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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The last fork was deep, and there was no way to cross it without getting wet, but on the other side they disturbed a megaceros with an enormous rack of palmate antlers and decided to go after him.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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It was made from the stomach of a giant deer, a megaceros, which had been cured to maintain its naturally watertight character.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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Asiatic forms show a similarity of construction in the horn, but the common goat descended from more than one wild stock, for, as I have before stated, there are goats in India, which show unmistakable signs of descent from the markhor, _Capra megaceros_.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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In megaceros, there are usually more than one chloroplast in just one epidermal cell.
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In megaceros, there are usually more than one chloroplast in just one epidermal cell.
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In megaceros, there are usually more than one chloroplast in just one epidermal cell.
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In megaceros, there are usually more than one chloroplast in just one epidermal cell.
chained_bear commented on the word megaceros
Also known as megaceros giganteus.
September 4, 2008