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- Word comparison: caribou vs. deer
caribou vs. deer
noun
plural caribous, (especially collectively) caribou.
- any of several large, North American deer of the genus Rangifer, related to the reindeer of the Old World.
noun
plural deer, (occasionally) deers.
- any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- any of the smaller species of this family, as distinguished from the moose, elk, etc.