caribou vs cervid

caribou and cervid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
caribou	Yes	No	No	No
cervid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cervid is a hypernym of caribou; that is, cervid is a word with a broader meaning than caribou:

caribou: Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America
cervid: distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers

Other hypernyms of caribou include deer.

caribou (noun)	cervid (noun)
Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America	distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers