单词 | caribou |
释义 | caribou /kar"euh booh'/, n. , pl. caribous, (esp. collectively) caribou. any of several large, North American deer of the genus Rangifer, related to the reindeer of the Old World. [1665-75, Amer.; < CanF caribou, r. earlier E caribo, both < Micmac galipu deriv. (agent n.) of galipi- shovel snow < Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipi-; called the snow-shoveler from its habit of scraping aside snow with its front hoofs in search of food] |
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