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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several large reindeer native to northern North America.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The American woodland reindeer, Rangifer caribou or R. tarandus, inhabiting northerly North America as far as the limit of trees, where it is replaced by the barren-ground reindeer, to which the name is also extended. It is a variety of the reindeer, and has never been domesticated, but is an object of chase for the sake of its flesh. Also spelled carriboo. See cut on preceding page.
  2. n. No fewer than 10 species of caribou have been described from North America, some being restricted to a comparatively limited area. Such are Rangifer terranovæ of Newfoundland and R. dawsoni from the Queen Charlotte Islands. The most eastern species is R. grœnlandicus from Greenland, the westernmost R. granti from the end of the Alaska peninsula.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several North American subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The American reindeer, especially the common or woodland species (Rangifer Caribou).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America

Etymologies

  1. From Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu ("snow-shoveller"), from qalipi ("to shovel snow"), from Proto-Algonquian. (Wiktionary)
  2. Micmac ĝalipu (influenced by Canadian French caribou, also from Micmac), from Proto-Algonquin *mekālixpowa : *mekāl-, to scrape + *-ixpo-, snow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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hypernyms (2)

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  1. cervid
  1. deer

hyponyms (4)

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  1. woodland caribou
  1. rangifer caribou
  1. Barren Ground caribou
  1. rangifer arcticus

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  1. reindeer
  2. elk
  3. moose
  4. buffalo
  1. buffaloe
  2. walrus
  3. yak
  4. boar
  1. wapiti
  2. tabuk
  3. grizzly
  4. stag
  1. beaver
  2. raccoon
  3. ptarmigan
  4. musk-ox
  1. kangaroo
  2. otter
  3. gazelle
  4. hyena
  1. fox
  2. rhinoceros
  3. hare

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. woodland caribou
  2. rangifer caribou
  3. carriboo
  1. caribou
  2. kamik
  3. Chipewyan
  1. antler
  2. rangifer
  3. rangifer tarandus
  1. reindeer
  2. reindeer lichen
  3. reindeer moss
  1. deer
  2. genus rangifer
  3. greenland caribou
  1. arctic moss
  2. cladonia rangiferina
  3. mule deer

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  1. woody
  1. meat
  1. food
  1. mammal
  1. antlers

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