Caribou Definition

kărə-bo͝o
caribous
noun
Any of several large North American reindeer.
Webster's New World
A large deer (Rangifer tarandus) of the Arctic tundra and northern boreal forests, having large hooves and long branched antlers in both sexes. Subspecies native to Eurasia are usually called reindeer.
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Noun

Singular:
caribou
Plural:
caribous

Origin of Caribou

  • From Mi'kmaq qalipu (partly via Canadian French caribou) from Proto-Algonquian mekālixpowa mekāl- to scrape -ixpo- snow (because caribou use their hooves to dig through snow to reach the lichens on which they feed in winter)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Mi'kmaq qalipu (partly via Canadian French caribou) from Proto-Algonquian mekālixpowa mekāl- to scrape -ixpo- snow (because caribou use their hooves to dig through snow to reach the lichens on which they feed in winter)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“snow-shoveller”), from qalipi (“to shovel snow”), from Proto-Algonquian.

    From Wiktionary

Caribou Sentence Examples

  • The caribou, moose, antelope, mountain sheep, beaver, otter and mink are scarce.

  • The destruction of the wild caribou has threatened to expose the Indians to wholesale starvation, hence the effort which the United States government has made to stock the country with domestic reindeer from Siberia.

  • The state has moose, caribou and deer, especially in the northern part.

  • Of these three classes, and of other than purely zoological interest, are mosquitoes, which swarm in summer in the interior in vast numbers; sea fowl, which are remarkably abundant near the Aleutians; moose, and especially caribou, which in the past were very numerous in the interior and of extreme economic importance to the natives.

  • Owing to its northerly position a large part of Ungava is treeless, and belongs to the barren grounds where caribou roam and feed on the socalled caribou moss, a greyish lichen.

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