elk
part of speech
noun (an elk; plural elk or elks)
meaning for a pupil
1) In Britain and Europe: the largest kind of deer, with huge flat antlers and a long face; the same animal is called a moose in North America. tree →
2) In North America: a large deer with branching antlers, also called a wapiti, smaller than a moose. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and geography lessons, elk are examples of large plant-eating mammals of northern forests. In stories they appear in snowy woods and as animals on the road in Canada or Scandinavia (road signs warn drivers). The word means different animals in different countries, a classic trap.
examples
- An elk stepped out onto the road in front of us. tree →
- Elk eat grass, leaves and bark. tree →
- The male elk has large antlers. tree →
- We heard the elk bugling in the autumn forest. tree →
- In Sweden, signs warn drivers about elk. tree →
- A herd of elk grazed by the river. tree →
note
Plural is usually «elk» (same as singular), sometimes «elks». Trap: British «elk» = American «moose»; American «elk» = wapiti. «Elks» with a capital E is also a US club name. Begins with a vowel sound: «an elk».
In the corpora
- Elk are good swimmers and eat water plants as well as twigs.
- With no hunting, farming or traffic, wolves, elk, boar, lynx and even brown bears came back.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «elk» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.