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caribou
noun
Any of several North American subspecies of the reindeer,
Rangifer tarandus
.
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Etymology:
From the w:Míkmaq, Míkmaq word
qalipu
, meaning 'snow-shoveller', from
qalipi
, 'to shovel snow', from w:Proto-Algonquian, Proto-Algonquian. The spelling shows the influence of the Canadian word
caribou
, which is of the same origin.
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