taigan.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 70/2 They [sc. the Altai] are chiefly hunters, passionately loving their taiga, or wild forest.

1920 J. Ritchie Infl. Man on Animal Life Scotl. vi. 329 The typical pine forest region, or taiga.

1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past iii. v. 122 Stunted forest of the taiga type may have played a larger part in preglacial Europe than is commonly assumed.

1957 Times 12 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p. xvi/1 Northward..the timber attenuates into sub-Arctic forest (taiga) and finally gives way to the true Arctic tundra.

1964 Listener 12 Nov. 747/1 A huge artificial lake has been created, inundating thousands of square acres of the Siberian taiga, the endless forest of birches and firs and pines that covers southern Siberia.

1969 Beaver Summer 5/1 Stunted taiga forest, lakes, yellow-green marshes.

1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. i. ii. 24 Before it came the wave of 1929 and 1930, the size of a good River Ob, which drove a mere fifteen million peasants, maybe even more, out into the taiga and the tundra.

1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Feb. 140/1 These are generally described in terms of bioclimatic zones—arctic, tundra, taiga, boreal forest, temperate deciduous forests, prairies, desert savanna, and rain forest.