tundra
one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
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How to use tundra in a sentence
In Rocky Mountain, concern has been raised about mounting pressure on high-alpine tundra off of Trail Ridge Road, the result of overcrowding.
The National Parks Reservation System Is Off to a Bumpy Start | awise | August 11, 2021 | Outside OnlineEver hotter temperatures are causing age-old glaciers to recede, sea ice to melt and more frequent, larger wildfires to burn across expanses of tundra.
Surrounded by alpine lakes and rivers, a loose network of game trails, and a high mountain tundra known as the Flat Tops, the seven first-come, first-served campsites offer an impressive taste of the state’s trademark wilderness.
We’ve picked ten of the greatest outdoor reality shows over the years, taking us from the blistering tropics to the freezing tundra and everywhere in between.
The first posited the creatures spent their whole lives in the tundra.
The real Jurassic Park may have been in the Arctic | Sara Kiley Watson | June 28, 2021 | Popular-Science
Hold the Dark is set in the Alaskan wilderness, in an isolated village at the lip of the tundra.
Compliments Are Nice, but Enough With the Cormac McCarthy Comparisons | William Giraldi | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe emissions of frozen CO2 and the tundra around the Arctic Ocean have already begun as it thaws.
The characteristic tundra animal is the reindeer, though musk-ox, woolly mammoth, and others were wide-spread at this time.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. Tylertundra and steppe animals became more rare; a forest and meadow fauna took possession of Europe.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerCro-Magnon man had always been a reindeer hunter, accustomed and well adapted to the life and conditions of tundra or steppe.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. Tylertundra, steppe, and forest had each its special types of animal as well as plant life.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerOn the tundra south of the mouth of the Yukon River an orphan boy once lived with his aunt.
A Treasury of Eskimo Tales | Clara Kern Bayliss
British Dictionary definitions for tundra
/ (ˈtʌndrə) /
a vast treeless zone lying between the ice cap and the timberline of North America and Eurasia and having a permanently frozen subsoil
(as modifier): tundra vegetation
Origin of tundra
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Scientific definitions for tundra
[ tŭn′drə ]
A cold, treeless, usually lowland area of far northern regions. The lower strata of soil of tundras are permanently frozen, but in summer the top layer of soil thaws and can support low-growing mosses, lichens, grasses, and small shrubs.
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Cultural definitions for tundra
A land area near the North Pole where the soil is permanently frozen a few feet underground.
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