Crossword clues for tundra
tundra
- Vast treeless plain
- Toyota pickup
- North Pole feature
- Home to caribou and musk oxen
- Arctic treeless plain
- Arctic area
- Where caribou roam
- Vast treeless plain in Arctic regions
- Reindeer's biome
- Plain of the arctic regions
- Plain of Siberia
- Permafrost plain
- Permafrost locale
- Northern Siberia region
- Musk ox's habitat
- Much of Scandinavia
- Largely treeless Arctic region
- Frozen expanse
- Far north's biome
- Cold, treeless terrain
- Cold plain
- Caribou country
- Big Toyota vehicle
- Area with not much growing for it?
- Arctic zone
- Arctic wasteland
- Arctic stretch
- Arctic ecosystem
- About 10% of Russia
- ____ buggy ( northern tourism conveyance)
- Feature of northern Canada
- Treeless area
- Caribou's domain
- Much arctic land
- Land beyond the tree line
- Arctic plain with permafrost
- A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line
- Alaskan plain
- Treeless plain
- Reindeer's feeding grounds
- Medic introduced to swimmer in wasteland
- Arctic permafrost region
- Container for ale, mostly dull and plain
- Cockney tough guy picked up in Arctic landscape
- Suffering aunt must be probed by doc, that's plain
- Frozen wasteland
- Arctic region
- Plain lover repelled half-cut Welsh rugby player?
- Plain fish to catch way back
- Permafrost region
- Hard nuts climbing naked here? Probably not!
- Treeless Arctic region
- Unrestricted hard nuts head up Arctic region
- Frozen plain
- Arctic expanse
- Much of Siberia
- Arctic landscape
- Treeless region
- Treeless arctic plain
- Siberian expanse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tundra \Tun"dra\, n. [Russ.] One of the level or undulating treeless plains characteristic of northern arctic regions in both hemispheres. The tundras mark the limit of arborescent vegetation; they consist of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, but support a dense growth of mosses and lichens, and dwarf herbs and shrubs, often showy-flowered.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
an Arctic steppe, 1841, from Russian tundra, from Lappish tundar, said to mean "elevated wasteland" or "a marshy plain."
Wiktionary
n. A flat and treeless arctic biome.
WordNet
n. a vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line
Wikipedia
In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes through Russian тундра (tûndra) from the Kildin Sami word tūndâr "uplands", "treeless mountain tract". There are three types of tundra: Arctic tundra, alpine tundra, and Antarctic tundra. In tundra, the vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens. Scattered trees grow in some tundra regions. The ecotone (or ecological boundary region) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree line or timberline.
Tundra is a comic strip written and drawn by Wasilla, Alaska, cartoonist Chad Carpenter. The comic usually deals with wildlife, nature and outdoor life. Tundra began in December 1991 in the Anchorage Daily News and is currently self-syndicated to over 500 newspapers. The strip was named the best newspaper panel of 2007 by the National Cartoonists Society and nominated again in 2011.
Tundra is primarily drawn in two styles, single-panel gag comics using puns in combination with wildlife and the outdoors, and a three-panel strip that employs regular characters: Sherman the Squirrel, Dudley the Bear, Chad the Cartoonist, Andy Lemming, Whiff Skunk, and Hobart the Wise. These comics, usually Sunday strips, contain more written dialogue and generally more complex jokes.
Tundra is a treeless region near the poles of the Earth, or at high elevation
Tundra may refer to:
- Dream Tundra, kit aircraft
- Joplin Tundra, ultralight aircraft
- " The Mighty Boosh (series 1)" contains an episode named "Tundra"
- Toyota Tundra, Toyota pickup truck
- Tundra (comic strip), a comic strip by Chad Carpenter
- Tundra (Marvel Comics), one of the Great Beasts supervillains featured in the Marvel Comics series Alpha Flight
- Tundra (musician) (born 1975), a musician from Norway
- Tundra orbit, a highly elliptical, highly inclined geosynchronous orbit
- Tundra Publishing, a defunct American comic book publisher
- Tundra Semiconductor, a semiconductor company in Canada
- Tundra (satellite), a satellite that was, as of September 2015, planned for launch in November 2015
Tundra, in comics, may refer to:
- Tundra (comic strip), an Alaska comic strip that started in 1991
- Tundra (DC Comics), a DC Comics character and member of the Global Guardians
- Tundra (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
Tundra is the debut solo album of the Norwegian singer Anneli Drecker. It was released on 27 March 2000.
Usage examples of "tundra".
There were still goods to be assayed and shipped, miners to be fed and medicated and entertained, remnants of businesses to be tended, and most of the people remaining on Tundra gathered in Klondike, a once-prosperous city.
But its people -- mostly Suni Muslim engineers from the failed Trans-African Genetic Reclamation Project -- stubbornly refused to die during the Fall, and ended up terraforming Groombridge Dyson D into a Laplandic tundra world with breathable air and adapted-Old Earth flora and fauna, including wooly mammoths wandering the equatorial highlands.
Three of the men carried packs with light supplies of food, but Brode said they could scavenge well enough while in the forest, and once on the tundra there would likely be snow rabbits and birds they could catch for their supper.
He often escorted and protected the halfling through the dangerous first legs of the journey from Lonelywood, around the open tundra north of Maer Dualdon and down toward Bryn Shander, when Regis went to the principle city for business or council meetings.
And Tia and Old King Cold were separated from the rest of their group, driven in different directions, until even the king--who had lived his entire life in the frozen climes and knew every glacier and every bit of frozen tundra as if it was his own body--even he had no idea which way was east or west, or even up or down.
In the darkness Kapu got up to exercise by walking out on the tundra and back.
When the sky was overcast, however, the tundra was black and she would stay inside, light her candle, and talk to Kapu and Tornait.
Yamaha 350 off the trailer, packed up, went jouncing across niggerhead tundra and then down the washes and into willow thickets, branches slapping the machine.
Though permafrost was as pervasive on the ancient steppes as in the wetter northern tundras of later times, the glacier-driven winds kept the summers arid, and the land dry and firm, with few bogs.
The Martian tundra lay red, gray, and dusty green behind them, while beyond the mountains lay hilly country, with quoie growing in the sheltered valleys and bats swooping low over the landscape.
She looked out between the taar pen and the other tents, across the tundra.
The windhover skated across the tundra ground-blizzards with full tanks, barely rocking in the gusts.
There were many, many burrowers here on the tundra this autumn, many more than last year.
Air groups and missile sections launched on training exercises over Canadian wasteland that closely resembled tundra, with grid maps that bore names like Maina Pylgin and Kamenskoe.
Her name was Persimmon Gaunt, and she stumbled in the purple sunset across the tundra, her breath streaming behind as she gasped late autumn air.