caribou

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Damned if I know the difference, but I just looked it up and a caribou is a reindeer, not a moose.

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

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  • I hear her approval rating among polar bears, caribou, and moose in the region is even lower. —  Media Blog
  • Damned if I know the difference, but I just looked it up and a caribou is a reindeer, not a moose. —  Maggie's Farm
  • This Christian fundamentalist, who believes in creationism and the preciousness of prenatal human life, spent the intervening years since that first bunny kill shooting God's creatures of all kinds: moose, caribou, and even wolves, which she has hunted from helicopter -- probably the bottom of the barrel when it comes to sportsmanship. —  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
  • She doesn't care for the caribou, she wants to see their little cute corpses lying dead all over the ground. —  Latest Articles
  • "These are special animals because they are not woodland caribou or tundra caribou, but a very interesting combination of the two," Weckworth said. —  Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
 

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  1. Micmac ĝalipu (influenced by Canadian French caribou, also from Micmac), from Proto-Algonquin *mekālixpowa : *mekāl-, to scrape + *-ixpo-, snow.
 

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/ˈkærɪbu/
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