caribou
noun/ˈkærɪbuː/
/ˈkærɪbuː/
(plural caribou)
- a North American reindeerWord Originmid 17th cent.: from Canadian French, from Micmac (an Algonquian language) γalipu, literally ‘snow-shoveller’ (because the caribou scrapes away snow to feed on the vegetation underneath).
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
caribou