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holarctic, a.|həʊˈlɑːktɪk|
[f. Gr. ὅλο-ς whole (holo-) + Arctic.]
In the geographical distribution of animals: Of or pertaining to the entire northern or arctic region, as the holarctic region, or holarctic family of birds.
Mr. P. Sclater divided the surface of the globe into six great zoological regions, two of which, the Palæarctic and Nearctic, comprised the Old and the New World respectively north of the Tropic of Cancer (nearly). It has since been proposed to unite these into one region, to which Prof. A. Newton has applied the term Holarctic. It corresponds essentially to Huxley's Arctogæal.
1883A. Heilprin in Nature 26 Apr. 606 As regards the name ‘Triarctic’, by which I intended to designate the combined Neoarctic and Palæarctic regions..I beg to state that at the suggestion of Prof. Alfred Newton..it has been replaced by Holarctic. 1887Newton in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 733 The great northern or ‘Holarctic’ fauna. |