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UK
/bˈɔːɹiəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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toward or located in the north
the boreal signs of the Zodiac - comprising or throughout far northern regions
- relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind
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.