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Raindeer vs. Reindeer — What's the Difference?

Raindeer vs. Reindeer — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Raindeer and Reindeer

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Raindeer

Obsolete spelling of reindeer

Reindeer

The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. This includes both sedentary and migratory populations.

Raindeer

See Reindeer.

Reindeer

A large deer (Rangifer tarandus) of the Arctic tundra and northern boreal forests, having large hooves and long branched antlers, and widely domesticated in Eurasia. Subspecies native to North America and Greenland are usually called caribou.

Reindeer

(plural: reindeer) Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.
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Reindeer

Any species, subspecies, ecotype, or other scientific grouping of such animals.

Reindeer

To herd or farm reindeer

Reindeer

Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

Reindeer

Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called reindeer in Eurasia and caribou in North America

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