caribou
noun/ˈkærɪbuː/
Frequency rank: #13,416 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
A large deer native to Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, also known as reindeer.
Example sentence
The hunters followed the caribou herd across the frozen tundra.
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