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cariboo

cariboo is the archaic form of caribou.

Meaning of caribou

Noun

caribou (plural caribous or caribou)

  1. Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.

See all 6 meanings of caribou

Proper noun capitalized: Cariboo

Cariboo

  1. An intermontane region of British Columbia, Canada.
  2. A regional district (Cariboo Regional District) in the Central Interior of British Columbia.

Forms of cariboo

pluralcariboos
pluralcariboo

Questions about cariboo

What does cariboo mean?
Cariboo means an intermontane region of British Columbia, Canada.
What is cariboo the archaic form of?
Cariboo is the archaic form of caribou.
What part of speech is cariboo?
Cariboo is a proper noun.

Words near cariboo in the dictionary

  1. Caribbees
  2. caribe
  3. caribes
  4. caribflies
  5. caribfly
  6. cariboo
  7. cariboos
  8. caribou
  9. Caribou County
  10. Caribou Eskimo
  11. Caribou Inuit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cariboo (page history and authors); Cariboo (page history and authors); caribou (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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