Reindeer

Definitions

1. Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.
   plural
2. Any species, subspecies, ecotype, or other scientific grouping of such animals.
   plural

Equivalents

Examples

“Santa Claus' sleigh is supposedly pulled by nine reindeer”

“Here is a prodigious number⟳ of wild beaſts, as ſtags, bears, wolves, foxes of various colours, martens, hares, glittens, beavers, otters, elk, and rein deer: the latter is leſs than a stag.”

“The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist⟳ to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England.”

“Herds of wandering reindeer are frequently seen, and may even hold⟳ up the train⟳ while they cross the unfenced line to reach⟳ their feeding grounds.”

“Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain⟳ a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange⟳ systems in their legs and nasal passages.”

CEFR level