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REINDEER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does reindeer mean?

• REINDEER (noun)
The noun REINDEER has 1 sense:

1. arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called 'reindeer' in Eurasia and 'caribou' in North America

Familiarity information: REINDEER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• REINDEER (noun)

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Meaning:

Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called 'reindeer' in Eurasia and 'caribou' in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

caribou; Greenland caribou; Rangifer tarandus; reindeer

Hypernyms ("reindeer" is a kind of...):

cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reindeer"):

Rangifer caribou; woodland caribou (any of several large caribou living in coniferous forests of southern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus)

barren ground caribou; Rangifer arcticus (of tundra of northern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus)

Holonyms ("reindeer" is a member of...):

genus Rangifer; Rangifer (reindeer or caribou)

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