Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or designating the biogeographic region that includes the northern areas of the earth and is divided into Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Entirely arctic; wholly subject to arctic influences: as, the holarctic region.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoögeography) Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively.
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Examples
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It is what biogeographers call a Holarctic species.
Euconulus fulvus AYDIN 2008
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Holarctic phylogeography of Arctic char ( '' Salvelinus alpinus L. '') inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009
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Complex biogeographic history of a Holarctic passerine.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The flowering plants on these ranges have high rates of endemism, with over 450 strictly endemic plant species, as a result of the long isolation of Holarctic taxa at these high elevations.
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In contrast, the Grizzled Skipper is a more widely distributed Holarctic species, whose range extends not only to Alaska, Labrador and the arctic Quebec, but also across Asia to northern Europe.
Archive 2006-03-01 AYDIN 2006
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DISTRIBUTIONWorldwide, char of the genus Salvelinus occur in the Holarctic: Eurasia and North America, including Iceland and Greenland.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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From these refugia the ancestral lines began to disperse in the Holarctic region when the last ice age ended.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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From these refugia the ancestral lines began to disperse in the Holarctic region when the last ice age ended.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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From these refugia the ancestral lines began to disperse in the Holarctic region when the last ice age ended.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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DISTRIBUTIONWorldwide, char of the genus Salvelinus occur in the Holarctic: Eurasia and North America, including Iceland and Greenland.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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