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Caribou

//ˈkæɹəbu// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A rural area of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  2. 2
    A census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States.
  3. 3
    A ghost town in Boulder County, Colorado.
  4. 4
    A city in Aroostook County, Maine.
  5. 5
    An unincorporated community in Kittson County, Minnesota.
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  1. 6
    An unincorporated community in Kittson County, Minnesota.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.
  2. 2
    Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called ‘reindeer’ in Eurasia and ‘caribou’ in North America wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”) (compare qalipi (“to shovel snow”)), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou; it shovels snow”).

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