单词 | tundra |
释义 | tundran. One of the vast, nearly level, treeless regions which make up the greater part of the north of Russia, resembling the steppes farther south, but with arctic climate and vegetation. Also applied to similar regions in Siberia and Alaska. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > types of sand-flat1773 alluvial plain1803 sand-plain1818 sandveld1824 tundra1841 bench-land1845 salt flat1873 panfan1915 panplain1933 pediplain1935 soda plain1946 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 458/1 The most northern part of Siberia is a low plain, called the Tundra. The surface is nearly a dead level, and quite destitute of trees. 1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 93 In the vast sandy plains called by the Laplanders tundra, which border on the Arctic ocean. 1889 G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. 32 Much of the region north of St. Elias, Alaska, is now covered with tundra. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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