- Any of several large reindeer native to northern North America.北美驯鹿：原产于北美洲北部的一种巨大的驯鹿
- Micmac ĝalipu influenced by Canadian French caribou also from Micmac 密克马克语 ĝalipu 受 加拿大法语 caribou的影响 也源自 密克马克语
- from Proto-Algonquin *mekālixpowa 源自 原始阿尔贡金语 *mekālixpowa
- *mekāl- [to scrape] *mekāl- [刮除，擦掉]
- *-ixpo- [snow] *-ixpo- [雪]