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Roosevelt|ˈrəʊz(ə)vɛlt, ˈruː-|
The name of Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), President of the United States 1901–9, used attrib. or in the possessive in Roosevelt('s) elk, wapiti to designate a large, dark-coloured elk, Cervus canadensis roosevelti, found in coastal forests of north-western North America, and named in his honour by C. H. Merriam in 1897 (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington XI. 271).
1897Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington XI. 272 Roosevelt's Wapiti... Size large; head and legs black (probably only in winter pelage); skull and antlers massive. 1902Stone & Cram Amer. Animals 34 Roosevelt's Elk... Larger and darker coloured, with heavier horns. 1923Outing Apr. 3/1 The Olympic peninsula..contains vast, unmapped forests..teeming with the lordly Roosevelt elk. 1975Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 26 Jan. 16/4 The Olympic, or Roosevelt elk, are common in Olympic Park. |