[
US
/ˈtəndɹə/
]
[ UK /tˈʌndɹɐ/ ]
[ UK /tˈʌndɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen
How To Use tundra In A Sentence
- Alpine tundra, alpine grassland, subirrigated meadows, and wetlands occur above timberline. Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
- Toyota first imported the T - 100 and as the market found it lacking heft and zip it was replaced in 1999 by the U.S. bodied, import-engined Tundra.
- Except on portions of the coastal plain, the Alaskan tundra generally has few lakes.
- In the summer, they breed on marshy, lowland tundra at the northern limits of the boreal forest.
- Our chill mountaion camp on the chilcotin side of the Coast Mountains lay near the treeline, where clearcut gave way to krummholz, the low, twisty trees of the alpine tundra.
- From what it sounded like, the trees fell, and over several summers sank into the mushy tundra marshiness.
- Unfortunately, the good mayor's policy of using municipal scratch to buy staff birthday goodies and Christmas presents has also faded into the tundra.
- This is particularly true of the Teshekpuk Lake area, where many thousands of birds, including spectacled eiders, yellow-billed loons, snow geese, Pacific black brant, and tundra swans, all nest and in some cases take advantage of the area's remoteness to molt. The Flight
- The arctic meadows, tundras, and steppes contained the herbaceous plants, leaves, and sprigs of shrubs and low shrubs needed for the mammoth to feed on and survive in glacial Siberia.
- But most of it is under tundra permafrost, if not indeed under even more inhospitable terrain.