caribou
English
Etymology
From Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”) (compare qalipi (“to shovel snow”)), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou; it shovels snow”).
Pronunciation
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- enPR: kăr'ə-bū'
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
caribou (plural caribous or caribou)
- Any of several North American subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus.
Derived terms
- barren-ground caribou (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- boreal woodland caribou (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Caribou County
- Dawson's caribou (†Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- East Greenland caribou (†Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- forest caribou
- Grant's caribou (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Labrador caribou (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Newfoundland caribou (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Osborn's caribou (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Peary caribou (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- porcupine caribou (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Queen Charlotte Islands caribou (†Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- woodland caribou (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
Translations
North American reindeer
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References
caribou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Rangifer tarandus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”), from Proto-Algonquian.
Pronunciation
Noun
caribou m (plural caribous)
Descendants
Further reading
- “caribou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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