reindeer
English
Etymology
From Middle English reyndere, reynder, rayne-dere, from Old Norse hreindýri (“reindeer”), from hreinn + dýr (“animal”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (GA): (file) - Hyphenation: rein‧deer
Noun
reindeer (plural reindeer or reindeers)
- (plural: reindeer) Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.
- 1768, D[aniel] Fenning, “LAPLAND”, in The Royal English Dictionary; or, A Treasury of the English Language, 3rd improved edition, London: Printed for R. Baldwin, Hawes and Co., T. Caslon, S. Crowder, J. Johnson, Wilson and Fell, Robinson and Roberts, and B. Collins, →OCLC:
- Here is a prodigious number of wild beaſts, as ſtags, bears, wolves, foxes of various colours, martens, hares, glittens, beavers, otters, elk, and rein deer: the latter is leſs than a stag.
- 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 April 2016, 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.
- (plural: reindeers, biology) Any species, subspecies, ecotype, or other scientific grouping of such animals.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- Arctic reindeer (†R. t. eogroenlandicus)
- busk reindeer (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Finnish forest reindeer (R. t. fennicus)
- Kamchatkan reindeer (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- mountain reindeer (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Novaya Zemlya reindeer (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- reindeer calf
- reindeer lichen (Cladonia spp.)
- reindeer moss (Cladonia spp.)
- Siberian forest reindeer (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Siberian tundra reindeer (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Svalbard reindeer (R. t. platyrhynchus)
- wild reindeer (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
Translations
Rangifer tarandus
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