tundra

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None of the little animals of the tundra was afraid of him.

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  1. noun A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation such as lichens, mosses, and stunted shrubs.

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  • Already the planet had shed many rich ecosystems -- tundra, forests, grasslands, meadows, mangrove swamps. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • It must have come from the tundra, and it meant nothing. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 04 - April 1995
  • The only sound was the gusting of wind over the tundra, the hiss of frozen snow stinging the ground, and my heart pounding. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • Between them and the shoreline spreads an alkali plain covered by sagebrush and tundra, and the ghostly white tufa towers that stand as mute testimony to man's greedy abuse of his environment. —  dummy2
  • Before anyone advances a farmer money to farm the tundra, they will ask, "How much rain do you expect?" —  RealClimate
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  1. Russian, from Sami tūndar, flat-topped hill.

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  1. Also toondra; from Russian tundra, a marshy plain.
 

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