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Definition: Tundra |
TundraNoun1. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tundra" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Treeless, mossy and partly marshy plain of Arctic regions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A treeless, level or gently undulating plain characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions. It usually has a marshy surface, which supports a growth of mosses, lichens, and numerous low shrubs and is underlain by adark, mucky soil and permafrost. (references) |
Weather | A type of ecosystem dominated by lichens, mosses, grasses, and woody plants. It is found at high latitudes (arctic tundra) and high altitudes (alpine tundra). Arctic tundra is underlain by permafrost and usually very wet. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are two types of tundra: arctic tundra and alpine tundra. In both of these types, the dominant vegetation is grasses, mosses, and lichens. Trees do not grow in the tundra. The ecotone (or ecological boundary region) between the tundra and the forest is known as the timberline or treeline.
There are various types of habitat in a tundra, including:
Notable animals in the arctic tundra include:
Notable animals in the alpine tundra include:
Alpine tundra
Alpine tundra occurs at high enough altitude at any latitude on Earth. Alpine tundra is also lacking in trees, but does not have permafrost.External link
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tundra."
Crosswords: Tundra |
| English words defined with "tundra": barren ground caribou, Bewick's swan ♦ Cygnus columbianus, Cygnus columbianus bewickii, Cygnus columbianus columbianus ♦ Kobuk Valley National Park ♦ Rangifer arcticus ♦ tundra swan ♦ whistling swan. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tundra" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (tundra), Hungarian (tundra), Italian (tundra), Portuguese (tundra), Serbo-Croatian (tundra), Spanish (tundra), Swedish (tundra), Turkish (tundra). |
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Screenplays | We'll chase them like rats across the tundra! (The Conqueror; writing credit: Oscar Millard) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Following the Tundra Wolf (1974) Above the Timberline: The Alpine Tundra Zone (1960) Tundra (1936) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Polar bear - Ursus maritimus - on tundra. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Brown bear (grizzly) - Ursus arctos - on the tundra. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | The aftermath of a tower blowing over Bob had his head buried a foot deep in the tundra Photo #1 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Tundra swans near the mouth of the Patuxent River. These swans can be distinguished from mute swans by their black bills. Tundra swans are native to the Chesapeake Bay region. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Mute swans in flight. Mute swans are an agressive invasive species. There are now over 3,000 mute swans in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay. They are easily distinguished from the tundra swan by their orange beaks. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Weasel traveling through the snow with bare tundra in background Weasel driver - Lieutenant Commander Francis X. Popper. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Open water to left, bare tundra to the right Weasel takes path of least resistance over strip of snow. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Tundra swans. Credit: USDA. |
 | Fall tundra colors along Taylor Highway, Alaska. Credit: Edward Bovy. |  | Caribou skull and fall tundra near Salmon Lake, Seward Peninsula. Credit: Nick Seifert. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Matt Groening | Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. |
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Economic History | Azerbaijan | Climate: Dry, subtropical with hot summers and mild winters; forests, meadows and alpine tundra in the mountains. (references) |
Russia | Terrain: Broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains (Caucasus range) along southern borders. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tundra" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.65% of the time. "Tundra" is used about 223 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) | 98.65% | 220 | 20,356 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.35% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 223 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Canada | Tundra Semiconductor Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tundra": tundra climate ♦ tundra soil ♦ tundra swan. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tundra": tundra-forest, tundra-like. | |
Ending with "tundra": forest-tundra. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
toyota tundra | 1,057 | cab double toyota tundra | 33 |
tundra | 955 | toyota tundra for sale | 29 |
2004 toyota tundra | 136 | food tundra web | 26 |
the tundra biome | 101 | tundra swan | 24 |
toyota tundra accessory | 100 | toyota tundra review | 23 |
tundra biomes | 96 | new toyota tundra | 23 |
t3 tundra | 68 | used tundra | 22 |
t3 toyota tundra | 66 | tundra lift kit | 22 |
toyota tundra used | 66 | tundra supercharger | 20 |
tundra animal | 62 | tundra for sale | 20 |
arctic tundra | 59 | toyota tundra 2000 | 19 |
2004 tundra | 51 | tundra climate | 19 |
2003 toyota tundra | 45 | buy tundra | 19 |
tundra accessory | 42 | trd tundra | 19 |
toyota tundra part | 42 | new tundra | 19 |
tundra picture | 41 | bargain toyota tundra | 19 |
buy a toyota tundra | 40 | bargain tundra | 19 |
tundra double cab | 39 | la tundra | 18 |
tundra solution | 39 | 2004 cab double toyota tundra | 18 |
tundra plant | 35 | toyota tundra truck | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tundra"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tundër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التندرة سهل أجرد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тундра. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '带草原. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tundra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | toendra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tundra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toundra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tundra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τούντρα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tundra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tundra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 原 (field, fundamental, moor, original, plain, prairie, primary, primitive, raw, wilderness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はら (abdomen, belly, field, moor, plain, prairie, stomach, wilderness), とう'" (paradise on earth, Shangri-La). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 동 대. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tundrey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | undratay tundra. (various references) tundrã. (various references) тундра. (various references) tundra. (various references) tundra. (various references) tundra. (various references) tundra. (various references) tundra (r). (various references) тундра. (various references) lãnh nguyên. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tundra": tundras. (additional references) | |
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"Tundra" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chondral, chondria, Chundra, Dzundza, Gundar, Kundra, tandry, tendar, tendria, Tenira, tenra, tindar, tindr, Tonard, Tournadre, Tuenda, tund, tundril, tundry, tuntra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tundra" (pronounced tu"ndru) |
| 4 | -n d r u | Pachysandra. |
| 3 | -d r u | hydra, Mudra. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: daunt. | |
-2 letters: aunt, darn, dart, daut, drat, dunt, dura, durn, nard, nurd, rand, rant, runt, tarn, trad, tuna, turd, turn. | |
-3 letters: and, ant, art, dun, nut, rad, ran, rat, run, rut, tad, tan, tar, tau, tun, urd, urn, uta. | |
-4 letters: ad, an, ar, at, na, nu, ta, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: daunter, natured, rotunda, tundras, unitard, unrated, untread. | |
+2 letters: antidrug, breadnut, daunters, denature, dentural, duration, guardant, indurate, outdrank, outdrawn, quadrant, rotundas, ruinated, transude, truanted, turbaned, uncrated, underact, underate, undereat, undertax, undreamt, unitards, unparted, unthread, untoward, untraced, untreads, urinated. | |
+3 letters: adventure, antifraud, breadnuts, curtained, denatured, denatures, durations, grandaunt, guardants, indurated, indurates, inundator, numerated, outdaring, outearned, outlander, outranged, outranked, quadrants, reductant, redundant, renatured, ruminated, saturniid, sauntered, traducing, transduce, transuded, transudes, truncated, turbanned, unaltered, uncharted, uncreated, underacts, undercoat, undereats, underpart, underrate, undertake, unearthed, unrelated, unthreads, untrained, untreated, updarting. | |
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