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wapiti
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large North American deer with large much-branched antlers [syn: American elk , Cervus canadensis ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wapiti \Wap"i*ti\, n. [Probably the Iroquois name. Bartlett.] (Zo["o]l.) The American elk ( Cervus Canadensis ). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size. Note: By some writers it is thought to be a variety of the ...
Usage examples of wapiti.
Corryville itself sat on the Big Wapiti River, juxta positioned between the Badlands and the reservation.
Cecily remembered him that way from the ceremonial gatherings at Wapiti Ridge, and the image stuck stubbornly in her mind.
Native American issues, most especially on the right to open a casino on Wapiti Ridge.
I went to speak in favor of it before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, speaking for a committee from the Wapiti reservation.
In fact, I wanted to ask what you thought of the beaded moccasins and the textile samples I brought back from my trip to the Wapiti Ridge reservation.
Since Wapiti is small, and near a major tourist attraction, it has the potential to draw a lot of customers.
Leta used the publicity to focus on the problems back at the Wapiti Ridge reservation.
We always had a Christmas party at the school on the Wapiti reservation every year, and Tate would help pass out presents.
Then I grew tired of the rod and decided to go after wapiti for a change.
About half an hour before, having given up all hope of seeing wapiti, I had decided to kill a blacktail deer for meat.
Of course they were too high and moving too fast to see the herds, but a mashina in the forward wall of the cabin darkened, glittered briefly with pinpoints of light, and filled with solid-seeming images of wapiti, elephants, haknim, sfosura -- animals native and imported from other worlds -- shambling over pool-dotted green plains where the immortal Khan once ruled.
They drank water with the well-cooked meat of the wapiti, though red wine faced them on the table.
They could understand that the heavy machinery was a threat, and cunningly dig pit traps for it to fall into, just as they had dug pit traps for wapiti and even the occasional bison when they had been among the living.
By sunlight or moonlight its splintered grey crest is the one object which, in spite of wapiti and bighorn, skunk and grizzly, unfailingly arrests the eyes.
He saw some cattle and some absolutely gigantic deer that had to be the wapiti that Kane had talked about.