English Dictionary

giant deer

名詞

The extinct Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus, which lived during the Pleistocene. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see giant, deer.

日本語の意味

更新世に生息していた絶滅したアイルランドオオジカ（学名：Megaloceros giganteus）を指す。 / 比喩的または慣用的に用いられるのではなく、形容詞の「giant」と名詞の「deer」という構成で、それぞれの意味（巨大な/大きなと鹿）として解釈される。

In the museum's prehistoric exhibit, a life-size skeleton of a giant deer towered over visitors, its antlers spanning nearly four meters.

博物館の先史時代の展示では、絶滅したアイルランドヘラジカ（メガロケロス・ギガンテウス）の実物大骨格が来館者の上にそびえ、角幅はほぼ4メートルに及んでいた。

意味（1）

The extinct Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus, which lived during the Pleistocene.

Countless fossils of the giant deer have been unearthed from Ireland's peat bogs, and it seems that in the nineteenth century no Irish baronial manor was complete without the skull of an ‘Irish elk’ in the entrance hall.

意味（2）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see giant, deer.

They came to a bend in the trail and started around a big tree, when suddenly they came face to face with a giant deer—with two antlers, each the size of a big dog!

giant deer （ plural ）