CARIBOU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caribou mean? 

• CARIBOU (noun)
  The noun CARIBOU has 1 sense:

1. Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called 'reindeer' in Eurasia and 'caribou' in North America

  Familiarity information: CARIBOU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARIBOU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called 'reindeer' in Eurasia and 'caribou' in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

caribou; Greenland caribou; Rangifer tarandus; reindeer

Hypernyms ("caribou" is a kind of...):

cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caribou"):

Rangifer caribou; woodland caribou (any of several large caribou living in coniferous forests of southern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus)

barren ground caribou; Rangifer arcticus (of tundra of northern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus)

Holonyms ("caribou" is a member of...):

genus Rangifer; Rangifer (reindeer or caribou)

 Context examples 

But ever he sucked and chewed on the crushed bones of the caribou calf, the least remnants of which he had gathered up and carried with him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Ever was he a mighty hunter, and ever did he bring thee the good back-fat and the sweet dried tongues of the moose and the caribou.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The debris had been a caribou calf an hour before, squawking and running and very much alive.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They were not in sufficient numbers, and besides they were hunting the caribou, which did not battle, while this strange creature that walked erect might scratch and bite.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The animal was not mere than fifty feet away, and instantly into the man's mind leaped the vision and the savor of a caribou steak sizzling and frying over a fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A band of caribou passed by, twenty and odd animals, tantalizingly within rifle range.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was in a strange country, too, and the caribou were growing more plentiful, also the wolves.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Throughout the night he heard the cough of the sick wolf, and now and then the squawking of the caribou calves.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As he rolled over on his elbow he was startled by a loud snort, and saw a bull caribou regarding him with alert curiosity.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Afar off he heard the squawking of caribou calves.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)