MOOSE
What does "MOOSE" mean?
A very large deer of northern forests, the males bearing broad palmate antlers.
Meanings
- The largest living member of the deer family, found across the northern forests of North America and Eurasia (where it is called an elk). A bull moose stepped onto the road, dwarfing their car.
Did you know?
- 'Moose' is a loanword from an Algonquian language - likely Eastern Abenaki 'mos' - one of the earliest Native American words English borrowed in North America.
- Transatlantic mix-up: the creature North Americans call a 'moose', Europeans call an 'elk' - and the American 'elk' is yet another species entirely.
Word origin
From an Eastern Abenaki word such as 'mos', adopted by English-speaking colonists in the early 1600s; the same animal is called 'elk' in Europe.
Remember it
MOOSE has two O's like two huge eyes - and an antler-spread 'M' on the front.
A little poem
Antlers like spread hands -
it wades the black pond at dusk,
older than the road.
haiku
Wordplay
- What do you call a moose with no name? Anonymoose.
What it teaches
Half the world's confusion is two people using the same name for different things - just ask a moose and an elk.
Quick facts
What does MOOSE mean?
A very large deer of northern forests, the males bearing broad palmate antlers.
Is MOOSE a valid word?
Yes — MOOSE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is MOOSE?
MOOSE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does MOOSE come from?
From an Eastern Abenaki word such as 'mos', adopted by English-speaking colonists in the early 1600s; the same animal is called 'elk' in Europe.
What can MOOSE teach us?
Half the world's confusion is two people using the same name for different things - just ask a moose and an elk.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.