mountain reindeer

English

Noun

Wikispecies mountain reindeer (plural mountain reindeer)

A subspecies of reindeer, found wild in southern Norway and Kola peninsula in Russia; Rangifer tarandus tarandus. A semi-domesticated variant is widely herded by the Sami in northern Scandinavia.

Synonyms

(Rangifer tarandus tarandus): wild reindeer, reindeer

Translations

reindeer

Finnish: tunturipeura (fi) (wild), poro (fi) (semi-domesticated)
Swedish: ren (sv) c

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