Tun"dra (?), n. [Russ., from a native name.]

A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.

 

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Tun"dra (?), n. [Russ.]

One of the level or undulating treeless plains characteristic of northern arctic regions in both hemispheres. The tundras mark the limit of arborescent vegetation; they consist of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, but support a dense growth of mosses and lichens, and dwarf herbs and shrubs, often showy-flowered.

 

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