Caribou

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăr'É™-bÅ«'

Origin

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

Noun

1. Any of several North American subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus.

Derived terms

• barren-ground caribou
• Dawson caribou
• forest caribou
• Grant's caribou
• Peary caribou
• Queen Charlotte Islands caribou
• woodland caribou
• boreal woodland caribou