Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to, distributed, or occurring chiefly throughout the northern portion of the Northern Hemisphere.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to the zone next outside the boreal or Arctic region.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a region of abundant forest growth, particularly spanning
Eurasia andNorth America .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective comprising or throughout far northern regions
Etymologies
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circum- + boreal
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Examples
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Future wildfire in circumboreal forests in relation to global warming.
Climate change in relation to carbon uptake and carbon storage in the Arctic 2009
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The circumboreal tundra-taiga interface: Late Pleistocene and Holocene changes.
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The circumboreal tundra-taiga interface: Late Pleistocene and Holocene changes.
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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? 2009
slumry commented on the word circumboreal
around the northern regions of the earth
June 19, 2007