caribou
Meaning of caribou
noun
a large North American reindeer.
early 17th century: from Canadian French, from an earlier form of Micmac qalipu, literally ‘snow-shoveller’ (because the caribou scrapes away snow to feed on the vegetation underneath).
Information about caribou
- It is a name.
- The plural form of caribou is: caribous.
- Languages in which caribou is used:
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Hyphenation of caribou
cari-bou
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- caribou is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
caribou synonyms
Meaning reindeer:
Translation of caribou
- French: renne, caribou
- German: Rentier, Ren
- Italian: renna
- Spanish: reno, caribú
- Portuguese: rena, rangífer, rangífero
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