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GENUS RANGIFER

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Rangifer mean?

• GENUS RANGIFER (noun)
The noun GENUS RANGIFER has 1 sense:

1. reindeer or caribou

Familiarity information: GENUS RANGIFER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS RANGIFER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Reindeer or caribou

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Rangifer; Rangifer

Hypernyms ("genus Rangifer" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Rangifer"):

caribou; Greenland caribou; Rangifer tarandus; reindeer (arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called 'reindeer' in Eurasia and 'caribou' in North America)

Holonyms ("genus Rangifer" is a member of...):

Cervidae; family Cervidae (deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer)

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