Nearctic

 [nee-ahrk-tik, -ahr-]  

Ne·arc·tic

   [nee-ahrk-tik, -ahr-]
adjective Biogeography.
belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising temperate Greenland and arctic North America, sometimes including high mountainous regions of the northern Temperate Zone.
Origin:
1855–60; ne- + arctic
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Nearctic (nɪˈɑːktɪk)
 
—adj
of or denoting a zoogeographical region consisting of North America, north of the tropic of Cancer, and Greenland

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