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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A subgroup of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of northern Canada, southwest of the Sverdrup Islands and north of Victoria Island. Melville Island is the largest in the group.
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Ice hares, which are found as far north as the Parry Islands, are also subject to the same change, with the exception that the warm weather continues only long enough to spread a gray mantle along the back of the little creature, which quickly disappears as the temperature declines.
Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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