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moose

/muːs/ noun B1
  1. The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers. · We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.
  2. Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.
  3. An ugly person. (colloquial, figuratively)

Plural moose

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Tell her I am on my way to the station, to leave for San Francisco, where I shall join that Alaska moose-hunting expedition.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 35 · C1

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