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Definition of Circumboreal
1. Adjective. Comprising or throughout far northern regions.
Definition of Circumboreal
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a region of abundant forest growth, particularly spanning Eurasia and North America. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumboreal
Literary usage of Circumboreal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1864)
"Exactly accords with Atlantic specimens. circumboreal. 140. ... circumboreal.
10-40 fm. not r. Op. Family Arcada;. 141. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"circumboreal, extending south to Quebec and Labrador and in the western mountains
... circumboreal, extending south along the coast to Labrador and Quebec. ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"Of the 106 genera of Passeres, only 25 per cent, are circumboreal or ... or 44
per cent., are either circumboreal or widely dispersed over the Old World, ..."
4. The Mollusks of Western North America by Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1873)
"Exactly accords with Atlantic specimens. circumboreal. 140. ... circumboreal.
10-40 fin. not r. Cp, Family Arcada, 141. ..."
5. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1864)
"Exactly accords with Atlantic «p«a- mens. circumboreal. 140. ... circumboreal.
10-40 fin. not r. Cp. Family Arcada. 141. ..."
6. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"... extremes of the faunas of northeast China and of Europe with that series of
species which is sometimes called the circumpolar or circumboreal fauna. ..."
7. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1919)
"The Puget Sound fauna contains a considerable number of circumboreal species,
also several inhabitants of the Japanese coast that are not circumboreal. ..."
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