tundra
pronunciation
How to pronounce tundra in British English:
UK [ˈtʌndrə]
How to pronounce tundra in American English:
US [ ˈtʌndrə]
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- Noun:
- a vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line
Word Origin
- tundra (n.)
- an Arctic steppe, 1841, from Russian tundra, from Lappish tundar, said to mean "elevated wasteland" or "a marshy plain."
Example
- 1. So they stay in tundra , on the permafrost territory .
- 2. A cheaper sort comes from extinct woolly mammoths , which are periodically excavated from siberia 's tundra .
- 3. The forest is dark green , while the tundra is still brown .
- 4. He thinks these views ignore the reality of his inhospitable territory of treeless tundra , rock and ice .
- 5. Would life in the tundra justify infanticide ?