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moose

[ moos ]

noun

, plural moose.
  1. a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
  2. (initial capital letter) a member of a fraternal and benevolent organization Loyal Order of Moose.


moose

/ muːs /

noun

  1. a large North American deer, Alces alces, having large flattened palmate antlers: also occurs in Europe and Asia where it is called an elk


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Word History and Origins

Origin of moose1

1595–1605, Americanism; < Eastern Abenaki mos, reinforced by cognates in other Algonquian languages, all < Proto-Algonquian *mo˙swa

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Word History and Origins

Origin of moose1

C17: from Algonquian; related to Narraganset moos, from moosu he strips, alluding to the moose's habit of stripping trees

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Example Sentences

In the end, Republicans did not win control of the Senate so much as the Democrats delivered it like a field-dressed moose.

Forgive my candor, though such is my wont, but much like that moose on a spit, Bernie is dead.

On stage, Amber spoofed Sarah Palin in a topknot and librarian glasses, yanking a toy gun and stuffed moose from her skirt.

You could hold classes in the Moose Lodge or at the Y. Classes would be large.

Princess Anne, on a visit to Canada, was given a painting by a contemporary artist - of the Princess riding a moose.

Here Justin entered with a steaming bowl of stewed moose meat and prairie spinach.

Then she noticed that he had stopped, and was looking at her in deprecation, and was holding aside the screen of moose-maples.

They also make finger rings out of moose hair, taken from the breast tuft of this animal, in which mottoes or devices are worked.

He understood that the moose had gone back to watch for his pursuers.

The deer and moose were in their well-trodden "yards," for the snow was deep.

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