DCHP-3

prairie elk

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the North American elk or stag, Cervus canadensis.

See: wapiti

Quotations

1930
. . . these dusky people with the freshness of plain winds still on their faces [moved] about with the grace of prairie elk. . . .