| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| caribou |
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| SYLLABICATION: | car·i·bou |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k r  -b  |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. caribou or car·i·bous
Any of several large reindeer native to northern North America. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Micmac  alipu (influenced by Canadian French caribou, also from Micmac), from Proto-Algonquin *mek lixpowa : *mekl-, to scrape + *-ixpo-, snow.
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