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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A subartic, coniferous forest that is typical of open, slow-growing spruces, interspersed with bogs and characteristic of Europe, Asia, and North America. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | The open northern part of the boreal forest. It consists of open woodland of coniferous trees growing in a rich floor of lichen, and is generally cold and swampy. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Taiga (SAMPA /taIg@/, from Russian), called boreal forest in Canada, is a biome characterized by its coniferous forests.
It is a northern subarctic and humid biogeographic region in which the main plant life is coniferous evergreen spruces and firs, which are adapted to the cold climate. Bogs and their associated plants are also common in this zone (see muskeg), which covers most of inland Canada and northern Russia.
It is the most northerly zone in which species which need some trees can survive. A considerable number of birds such as Siberian Thrush, White's Thrush and Dark-throated Thrush migrate to this habitat to take advantage of the long summer days and abundant insect food in that season.
Some seed-eating birds and large omnivorous birds that can take live prey or carrion will also maintain a presence in this zone in winter. They include Crossbill, Golden Eagle, Raven and Rough-legged Buzzard
Relatively few mammals can cope with the harsh winters. Those that can include Elk, Lynx, Beaver, Snowshoe Hare, Lemming, Caribou and several members of the weasel family such as Wolverine and Pine Marten.
Soil of taiga is very acidic due to the vegetation. When needles that have fallen from conifers decompose, they secrete an acid that helps prevent plants other than conifers from growing there. This acidic soil also comes when evergreen trees are planted in other biomes, such as temperate deciduous forests, slowing the rate at which the area returns to its natural state.
Precipitation is about 40-85cm/yr. in fog, snow and rain.
Compare with tundra.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Taiga."
Crosswords: TAIGA |
| Non-English Usage: "TAIGA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (taiga), German (taiga), Romanian (taiga). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Liebesnächte in der Taiga (1967) Taiga (1958) | |
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Business | WA-based Rayonier is involved in the RFEs timber business via its Russia-registered company Taiga. (references) | |
At the same time, a considerable share of the potential customers and end-users in this mobile and still developing market are small to medium companies, sometimes located in the middle of the taiga, and this makes them hardly accessible to foreign vendors. (references) | ||
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| "TAIGA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TAIGA" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "TAIGA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tajgë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غابة صنوبر سبخة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тайга. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | taiga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | taïga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | taiga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tajga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aigatay taiga. (various references) тайга. (various references) tajga. (various references) tayga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "TAIGA": taigas. (additional references) | |
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"TAIGA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aigai, Aigu, ataatga, atagia, ctcatga, Daigaku, Kabiga, Kaiga, Ntmaga, Saiga, Tafia, taga, tagin, tagu, taig, taigan, taigs, Taipa, tanga, targa, Tarigo, Tarija, taya, Tayga, tbig, teia, teig, teige, tiaga, tiage, tiana, tiava, tifa, tiga, Tigra, Tirga, Tjia, Triglaf, Triglav, Tsiba, tuiga, twiga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-t" | |
-1 letter: gait. | |
-2 letters: aga, ait, gat, git, tag. | |
-3 letters: aa, ag, ai, at, it, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-t" | |
+1 letter: taigas. | |
+2 letters: abating, against, agatize, agatoid, agitate, agitato, agnatic, antigay, antisag, granita, ignatia, otalgia, patagia, wagtail. | |
+3 letters: ablating, adapting, aerating, agatized, agatizes, agential, agiotage, agitable, agitated, agitates, agitator, agminate, agnation, alginate, antalgic, assignat, astigmia, aviating, avigator, awaiting, bangtail, contagia, divagate, enigmata, galactic, galivant, gigawatt, glaciate, gladiate, gliomata, granitas, gravitas, hagadist, ignatias, indagate, magmatic, navigate, otalgias, paganist, paginate, patagial, patagium, sagacity, sagittal, stigmata, stravaig, taiglach, tailgate, tragical, vacating, vaginate, wagtails. | |
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