Caribou Synonyms

kărə-bo͝o
Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reindeer
  2. Greenland caribou
  3. rangifer-tarandus

Words Related to Caribou

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. elk
  2. wild-goat
  3. pronghorn
  4. guanaco
  5. mule-deer

Caribou Sentence Examples

  • The caribou, moose, antelope, mountain sheep, beaver, otter and mink are scarce.

  • The destruction of the wild caribou has threatened to expose the Indians to wholesale starvation, hence the effort which the United States government has made to stock the country with domestic reindeer from Siberia.

  • The state has moose, caribou and deer, especially in the northern part.

  • Of these three classes, and of other than purely zoological interest, are mosquitoes, which swarm in summer in the interior in vast numbers; sea fowl, which are remarkably abundant near the Aleutians; moose, and especially caribou, which in the past were very numerous in the interior and of extreme economic importance to the natives.

  • Owing to its northerly position a large part of Ungava is treeless, and belongs to the barren grounds where caribou roam and feed on the socalled caribou moss, a greyish lichen.

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