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wapiti en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈwɑpɪti/ (US)

Etymology

From Shawnee waapiti (“elk; white rump”).

Meanings

1. (Canada, US) The American elk (Cervus canadensis).
   • You see, if we could keep giraffes or reindeer or some other species of browsing animal there we could explain the general absence of vegetation by a reference to the fauna of the garden: ‘You can’t have wapiti and Darwin tulips, you know, so we didn’t put down any bulbs last year.’ As it is, we haven’t got the wapiti, and the Darwin tulips haven’t survived the fact that most of the cats of the neighbourhood hold a parliament in the centre of the tulip bed; […]. 1919, Saki, “The Occasional Garden”, in The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers:
   • In connection with the work of the forest reserves I desire again to urge upon the Congress the importance of authorizing the President to set aside certain portions of these reserves or other public lands as game refuges for the preservation of the bison, the wapiti, and other large beasts once so abundant in our woods and mountains and on our great plains, and now tending toward extinction. 1904 December 6, Theodore Roosevelt, Fourth State of the Union Address:
   • Of deer there are in North America perhaps eight species : the black-tailed deer of the Pacific coast ; the mule-deer, and the white-tailed deer, of the Upper Missouri region and westward; the common deer of the United States east of the Missouri ; the wapiti of the northern and northwestern portions of the United States; one or two species of reindeer ; and the moose of the northern portion of the continent. […] Next to the moose, the wapiti or American elk (Cervus Canadensis) is the largest deer in North America. 1877 April, Sanborn Tenney, “The Plant-Eaters of North America”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 10:

Forms

Relateds

elk · moose

Synonyms

wawaskeesh · red deer · elk

Translations (50)

wao sóṭ'oko (the American elk) · chr ᎠᏫ ᎡᏆ (the American elk) · el μεγάλο ελάφι (the American elk) · hu vapiti (the American elk) · es wapití (the American elk) · hi गोज़न (the American elk) · unm mus (the American elk) · et vapiti (the American elk) · ru благоро́дный оле́нь (the American elk) · sv wapiti (the American elk) · zza wapiti (the American elk) · sv vapiti (the American elk) · pt uapiti (the American elk) · bo ཤྭ་བ་རྔ་རིང (the American elk) · ru вапити (the American elk) · pl wapiti (the American elk) · ga vaipití (the American elk) · cmn 加拿大馬鹿 /加拿大马鹿 (the American elk) · el μεγάλη έλαφος (the American elk) · nl wapitihert (the American elk) · lkt heȟáka (the American elk) · ko 와피티사슴 (the American elk) · tsi łioon (the American elk) · fr wapiti (the American elk) · osa 𐓪́𐓬𐓸𐓘͘ (ópxą) (the American elk) · mk се́верен е́лен (the American elk) · eo kanada cervo (the American elk) · fi kanadanhirvi (the American elk) · de Wapiti (the American elk) · nl wapiti (the American elk) · ru оле́нь (the American elk) · crg biche (the American elk) · nv dzééh (the American elk) · fi vapiti (the American elk) · apw bį́į́h naldee' (the American elk) · ru настоя́щий оле́нь (the American elk) · cy wapiti (the American elk) · bg канадски елен (the American elk) · tl wapiti (the American elk) · kl tuttu (the American elk) · es uapití (the American elk) · haw ʻēleka (the American elk) · crk wâwâskesiw (the American elk) · bla ponoká (the American elk) · tew taa (the American elk) · it vapiti (the American elk) · sv wapitihjort (the American elk) · pt wapiti (the American elk) · ro wapiti (the American elk) · chy mo'éhe (the American elk)

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