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单词 barren-ground reindeer
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Barren-Ground reindeer
b. Barren Grounds, the district lying between Hudson Bay and Mackenzie River in Canada, used attributively in Barren-Ground bear (see quots.); Barren-Ground caribou, Barren-Ground reindeer, any of the several varieties of reindeer found in the Barren Grounds and Greenland, esp. Rangifer arcticus and R. grœnlandicus.
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Barren-Ground bear1829
snow bear1869
Kodiak1899
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Rangifer (reindeer) > varieties of
Barren-Ground caribou1829
Barren-Ground reindeer1836
1691 Kelsey in Doughty & Martin Papers 23 Aug. (1929) 13 Now ye manner of their hunting these Beast on ye Barren ground is..they surround them.
1781 Cumberland House Jrnls. (1952) 226 The Indians lying Dead about the Barren Ground like rotten sheep.
1825 J. Richardson in Parry's Jrnl. 2nd Voy. App. 329 The cetrariæ, corniculariæ, and cenomyces, which clothe the barren-grounds like a carpet. [Note] The Barren Grounds (‘Hi lichene obsiti campi quos Terram Damnatam diceret peregrinus’, Flor. Lapp., p. 374).
1829 J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana I. 23 I have given this one the ad interim name of Barren-ground Bear, until its difference from, or identity with, the Ursus arctos of Linnæus be fully established.
1829 J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana I. 241 Cervus tarandus var. α, arctica. Barren Ground Caribou.
1836 R. King Narr. Journey Arctic Ocean I. vi. 149 The barren-ground rein-deer, or caribou..is of small size compared to the other deer.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 25/1 The Barren Ground Caribou, and the Woodland Caribou.
1897 Lydekker in Proc. Zool. Soc. 425 Ursus arctus RichardsoniBarren-Ground Bear... This Bear..differs from the Grizzly in the shorter skull.
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