Elk may refer to a number of species of large deer:
In North America it refers to Cervus canadensis. The various North American subspecies are also called Wapiti.
The name originates with Alces alces, the largest extant deer species, called "Elk" in Europe and Moose in North America.
In India it was used to refer to Cervus unicolor, commonly known as the sambar.
The word is also used to indicate Megaloceros, the extinct giant deer or Irish elk.
Elk may also be: This article is about red deer. ... Binomial name Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758) Moose range map Alces alces, called the moose in North America and the elk in Europe (see also elk for other animals called elk) is the largest member of the deer family Cervidae, distinguished from other members of Cervidae by the form of the... Binomial name Cervus unicolor (Kerr, 1792) Sambar Sambar, common name for several large dark brown and maned Asian deer, particularly for the Indian species, which attains a height of 102 to 160 cm (40 to 63 in) at the shoulder and may weigh as much as 272 kg (600 lb). ... Binomial name Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) The Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus or Megaceros, more properly a subgenus[1]) is an huge extinct deer (the largest species of deer to have ever lived) that lived in Eurasia, from Ireland to China, during the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene epochs. ...
An old name for the Whooper Swan or possibly the Greylag Goose (according to the Oxford English Dictionary)
Elk, a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive
ELK, an acronym for a shaft with which a mobile pallet (dolly) can be steered. This acronym is deduced from the German language and stands for "one-point handle joint" (Einpunkt-Lenk-Kupplung)
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