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taiga
[ tahy-guh, tahy-gah ]
noun
- the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
taiga
/ ˈtaɪɡə /
noun
- the coniferous forests extending across much of subarctic North America and Eurasia, bordered by tundra to the north and steppe to the south
taiga
/ tī′gə /
- A forest located in the Earth's far northern regions, consisting mainly of cone-bearing evergreens, such as firs, pines, and spruces, and some deciduous trees, such as larches, birches, and aspens. The taiga is found just south of the tundra.
Word History and Origins
Origin of taiga1
Word History and Origins
Origin of taiga1
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Example Sentences
This summer, as a haze of wildfire smoke descended on the village of Magaras in the East Siberian region of Yakutia, crews of local residents set out into the taiga forest to defend their land from the encroaching flames.
The town is not much to speak of—a few wooden houses along a snowy road in Taiga, some tiny food stores, a Kavkaz café.
It's like a grave all round you: a vulture crying above, a bear growling in the taiga, and that's all the pleasure you get!
The gale howled round the walls with increasing fury, the taiga groaned more and more sadly.
But Gavronsky suddenly went out to the 'Taiga' on the Yenisei and disappeared.
The country is rocky and mountainous, and the taiga spreads over it in all directions for hundreds and thousands of versts.
Then came the formation called the Taiga, a sort of Arctic moorland, which becomes swampy and dangerous in summer.
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