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# caribou

«caribou» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large deer of North America's Arctic and northern…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a caribou, caribou or caribous)

### meaning for a pupil

A caribou is a large deer of North America's Arctic and northern forests with big branching antlers; in Europe and Asia the same animal is called a reindeer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caribou/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons, caribou live on the tundra and in the taiga of Canada and Alaska; huge herds migrate hundreds of kilometres; both males and females grow antlers. They are very important to Inuit and other First Nations peoples for food and clothing. Canada's 25-cent coin shows a caribou.

### examples

- Caribou migrate across the tundra in huge herds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caribou/#x1)
- Both male and female caribou grow antlers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caribou/#x2)
- The Canadian quarter shows a caribou. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caribou/#x3)
- Caribou dig through snow to eat lichen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caribou/#x4)
- Wolves follow the caribou herds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caribou/#x5)
- Caribou and reindeer are the same species. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caribou/#x6)

### note

Plural usually the same: caribou. Said KA-ri-boo. Reindeer is the Eurasian (and Christmas) name of the same species.

### In the corpora

- [In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caribou» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caribou/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.