boreal

[ UK /bˈɔːɹi‍əl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. toward or located in the north
    the boreal signs of the Zodiac
  2. comprising or throughout far northern regions
  3. relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind
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How To Use boreal In A Sentence

  • About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
  • If the ventral curvature of tail is real, then that, in concert with its extremely narrow scaupulae, suggests that a more appropriate functional analog would be found in arboreal chameleons.
  • Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation. Archive 2006-11-01
  • The largest component of this is the arboreal Rio Negro caatinga. Jaú National Park, Brazil
  • In another document this schoolhouse is described as "schola, anglice _schoolhouse_, ad borealem finem Aulæ prædictæ. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
  • These societies are south of Hallowell's focus of study, the northern Boreal area of North America.
  • Many species of the salamander genus Bolitoglossa are arboreal (tree living), rather than typically terrestrial, and their feet are modified for climbing on smooth surfaces.
  • The Siberian northern boreal forests, called Taiga, where the fires were burning are mainly spruce and fir trees.
  • In our own solar system, the solar wind is responsible for shaping comets' tails and producing the Aurorae Borealis on Earth.
  • Others have countered that small land-dwelling dinosaurs learned to fly without ever developing arboreal habits: no trees were needed.
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