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Carcajou   Listen
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Carcajou  n.  (Zool.) The wolverene; also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.






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"Carcajou" Quotes from Famous Books



... wolverene "carcajou;" while among the Orkney and Scotch servants of the Hudson's Bay Company he is oftener known as the "quickhatch." It is supposed that both, these names are corruptions of the Cree word okee-coo-haw-gew (the name of the wolverene among the Indians of that ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid



Words linked to "Carcajou" :   skunk bear, wolverine, Gulo, musteline, musteline mammal, Gulo luscus, genus Gulo, mustelid



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