Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rangifer_tarandus

1 sense of rangifer tarandus

Sense 1
caribou, reindeer, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus -- (Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America)
       => deer, cervid -- (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)