rangifer tarandus

Questions about rangifer tarandus

What does rangifer tarandus mean?

rangifer tarandus means "Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America".

What is another word for rangifer tarandus?

Close synonyms include caribou, reindeer, Greenland caribou. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rangifer tarandus a common word?

rangifer tarandus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.