reindeer
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old Norse hreindýri (“reindeer”), from hreinn + dýr (“animal”).
Noun [edit]
reindeer (plural reindeer)
- An arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.
- 2013 March 1, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:
- Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
- 2013 March 1, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:
Hyponyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
- arctic reindeer
- Finnish forest reindeer
- mountain reindeer
- Siberian forest reindeer
- Siberian reindeer
- Svalbard reindeer
- wild reindeer
Translations [edit]
Rangifer tarandus
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