Rangifer arcticus

Rangifer arcticus
noun
of tundra of northern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus
Hypernyms: ↑caribou, ↑reindeer, ↑Greenland caribou, ↑Rangifer tarandus

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