Căr'i-bou, n.

n. [Fr. caribou, a Canadian name for a kind of small rein-deer.] (Zoöl.) A quadruped of the rein-deer kind (Tarangus zangifer), a native of the frigid zone in Europe, Asia, and America; — used by the Laplanders to draw their sledges. [Written also caribou.] Baird.