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Definition of Alces
1. Noun. Elk or moose.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Cervidae, Family Cervidae
Member holonyms: Alces Alces, Elk, European Elk, Moose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alces
Literary usage of Alces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Synopsis of the Mammals of North America and Adjacent Seas by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1901)
"Type alces mac hi is, Linn. Size, largest of all living deer; lateral metacarpals
represented by the lower extremities; antlers possessed only by the male, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1886)
"(8) Cervus has a horizontal zygoma; in alces it is directed downwards and forwards.
... (10) alces has a short neck and trunk, long limbs and head; ..."
3. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1885)
"A left calcaneum, provisionally referred to this species ; from the Pleistocene
of Big-Bone Lick, Kentucky, USA Mantell Collection. Purchased, 1836. alces ..."
4. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina by Albert E. Sanders (2002)
"Identifying it as "an upper right hindermost milk molar," Hay (1923a:364) noted
that "The tooth closely resembles the corresponding one of alces americanas ..."
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