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Tundra   /tˈəndrə/   Listen
Tundra

noun
1.
A vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen.



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"Tundra" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the heavy moss, or tundra, peculiar to Alaska, which, when covered with a heavy growth of grass, as was the case here, affords rather difficult walking. But as the boys left the edge of the sea-wall Rob ...
— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough
... replied Ben hopefully. "I dunno as I could do much myself, but I sure would like t' try Baldy out. He minds so quick I think he'd be a fine leader; an' it looks like he'd be fast from the way he chases rabbits and squirrels out on the tundra." ...
— Baldy of Nome • Esther Birdsall Darling
... training of 'Merican Joe, who had taught the wolf-dog to strike only those animals that were separated from their fellows. For had the killer rushed blindly in, slashing right and left the herd would have bunched for defence, and later have travelled far into the hills, or struck out for the open tundra. ...
— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx


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