Caribou synonyms

kăr'ə-bo͝o'

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guanaco (related)
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tapir (related)
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rangifer-tarandus
A taxonomic species within the family Cervidae.
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wild-goat (related)
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elk (related)
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pronghorn (related)
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reindeer
Any of a genus (Rangifer) of large deer, including the caribou, with branching antlers in both sexes, found in northern regions: it is domesticated as a beast of burden and as a source of milk, meat, and leather
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Greenland caribou
Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America
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mule-deer (related)
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Find another word for caribou. In this page you can discover 9 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for caribou, like: guanaco, tapir, rangifer-tarandus, , elk, pronghorn, reindeer, Greenland caribou and mule-deer.
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  • 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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