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noun Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America
originBorrowed from Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”; compare qalipi, “to shovel snow”), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou”, literally “it shovels snow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0