caribou

/ˈkæɹəbu/

caribou

English Noun Top 25,310

Definition

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”) (compare qalipi (“to shovel snow”)), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou; it shovels snow”).