caribou
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 北美驯鹿
演变路径(由近及远)
- 英语
- 借自 ←fr-CA caribou
- 源自 ←mic qalipu “caribou”; compare {{m|mic|qalipi}}, “to shovel snow”
- 源自 ←alg-pro *maka·lipowa “caribou”
词源说明
Borrowed from Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”; compare qalipi, “to shovel snow”), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou”, literally “it shovels snow”).
释义(英文)
名词 Noun
- Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.