| 单词 | caribou herd |
| 释义 | > as lemmascaribou herd C1. General attributive, as caribou herd, caribou meat, caribou skin, etc. ΚΠ a1710 P.-E. Radisson Voy. (1885) 302 The Indians..having laid out their presents before me, being Beavors' tailes, caribou tongues dry'd, Greas of Bears, Deere, & of Elks. 1779 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1913) XLIX. 112 Sold..82 caribou skins, at £6 10. 0. 1866 W. R. King Sportsman & Naturalist in Canada iv. 79 The Caribou antlers are of singular and fantastic form. 1887 Harper's Mag. Feb. 458/2 The hunter..covers his feet with..a pair of moose or caribou shanks, with the hair outside. 1903 S. E. White Conjuror's House viii. 94 She felt..the hunger that yet could not stomach the..hairy, black caribou meat. 1977 R. Ames in C. Brice-Bennett Our Footpr. are Everywhere ii. 225/1 Caribou herds..are small in winter. 2016 New Scientist 24 Sept. 12/3 Sea ice allows caribou populations to interact. < as lemmas |
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