Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Distributed or occurring chiefly throughout the boreal regions of North America and Eurasia. Used especially of plants.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Belonging to the zone next outside the boreal or Arctic region.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to a region of abundant forest growth, particularly spanning Eurasia and North America.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. comprising or throughout far northern regions
Etymologies
- circum- + boreal (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Future wildfire in circumboreal forests in relation to global warming.”
Climate change in relation to carbon uptake and carbon storage in the Arctic
“The circumboreal tundra-taiga interface: Late Pleistocene and Holocene changes.”
“When ecologists started poring over field research and peer-reviewed literature pertaining to the circumboreal region, they made a startling discovery, Mr. Kallick explains.”
Todd Wilkinson: Will Climate Talks Give Trees the Brush Off?
Lists
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circum-get around too
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Some new Wordie words this week
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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They run rings around me
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slumry around the northern regions of the earth Jun 19, 2007