caribou

名词 n.
/ˈkærɪbuː/    /ˈkæɹəbu/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.

词形变化

caribous plural caribou plural

词源

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