taiga
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- noun
- /ˈtaɪɡə/
- Three broad belts of vegetation stretch northwest-to-southeast: the Arctic tundra, a transition zone of subarctic forest tundra, and the taiga or boreal coniferous forest below the tree line.
- taiga or coniferous
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In the subarctic taiga areas, precipitation is also sparse, and winter temperatures are nearly as severe as in the tundra; however, summer conditions are less harsh, with July temperatures in southern areas being similar to those of the prairie provinces.
Academic text (1991) -
In the taiga, officials have virtually given up on struggling against poachers in the illegal fur trade.
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In general, the tundra may be considered the traditional land of the Inuit, and the taiga that of the Dene.
Academic text (1991) -
Then you've got the taiga, or the northern hardwood forests, which stretch across much of the high latitudes in the northern hemisphere.
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The signs are clearest close to Khabarovsk, but even far out on the taiga, you can see the ruts of wheels crawling their way to some cutting area.
Fiction book (1996) -
Hawk owls live and nest in the taiga, the subarctic band of forests that circle the northern reaches of the globe from Alaska to eastern Canada and from Scandinavia to Siberia.
Academic text (2003) -
The highest peaks are covered by snow, and the slopes of the mountains are bare, but at lower elevations, the taiga climbs up and down the mountains and spreads out in the valleys and over the plateaus.
Fiction book (1996) -
The taiga is home to numerous wildlife species, including bears and wolves, in its dense forests.
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In the taiga, the winters are long and cold, while the summers are short but filled with life.
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Travelers to Siberia often marvel at the vast expanses of taiga that span across the northern landscape.
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Etymology
Taiga comes from Russian and before that from an old Mongolian or Turkic word that meant 'forest' or 'mountain forest'. So taiga today names the very large evergreen forests found in cold northern regions like Siberia and Canada.