palearctic

[pey-lee-ahrk-tik, -ahr-tik or, especially Brit., pal-ee-]

pa·le·arc·tic

[pey-lee-ahrk-tik, -ahr-tik or, especially Brit., pal-ee-]
adjective
Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.


Origin:
1855–60; pale- + arctic
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Palearctic is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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