REINDEER


Meaning of REINDEER in English

■ noun ( plural same or ~s ) a deer with large branching antlers, native to the northern tundra and subarctic and domesticated in parts of Eurasia. [ Rangifer tarandus .]

Origin

ME: from ON hreindýri , from hreinn '~' + dýr 'deer'.

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