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.
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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:

reindeer

Translation of caribou

Words that rhyme with caribou

cachibou, Caribou

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