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 →

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 →
• Both male and female caribou grow antlers. tree →
• The Canadian quarter shows a caribou. tree →
• Caribou dig through snow to eat lichen. tree →
• Wolves follow the caribou herds. tree →
• Caribou and reindeer are the same species. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «caribou» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.