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caribou moss

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a whitish-gray lichen, Cladonia rangiferina, a staple food of the caribou.

See: reindeer lichen,reindeer moss,snow moss

Quotations

1744

[Near the Rivers and Sea-coast, there was small shrubby Woods, but for many Miles, at least 60 farther into the Country, they had nothing but a barren white Moss upon which the Rain-Deer feed. . . .]

1857

Moving on to a spot more favourable, perhaps because it is level, small batches of caribou moss began to show themselves.

1963

They didn't know . . . how to brew a stew of wild roots to make a meal of caribou moss.