MOOSE


Meaning of MOOSE in English

/ muːs; NAmE / noun

( pl. moose ) a large deer that lives in N America. In Europe and Asia it is called an elk .

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WORD ORIGIN

early 17th cent.: from Abnaki mos . Abnaki is a group of two extinct Algonquian languages.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.