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tundra


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tundra  \Tun"dra\,  n.  [Russ.] 
  One  of  the  level  or  undulating  treeless  plains  characteristic 
  of  northern  arctic  regions  in  both  hemispheres.  The  tundras 
  mark  the  limit  of  arborescent  vegetation;  they  consist  of 
  black  mucky  soil  with  a  permanently  frozen  subsoil,  but 
  support  a  dense  growth  of  mosses  and  lichens,  and  dwarf  herbs 
  and  shrubs,  often  showy-flowered. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tundra  \Tun"dra\,  n.  [Russ.,  from  a  native  name.] 
  A  rolling,  marshy,  mossy  plain  of  Northern  Siberia. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tundra 
  n  :  a  vast  treeless  plain  in  the  arctic  regions  between  the  ice 
  cap  and  the  tree  line 




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