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Tundra: meaning, pronunciation and examples
Tundra noun. A vast, treeless Arctic plain whose ground below the surface stays frozen all year.
How to say it
TUN-druh/ˈtʌndrə/
2 syllables, stressed on the first (TUN).
Tundra in a sentence
Caribou cross the tundra in their thousands each spring.
From the plane window the tundra looked like a crumpled sheet of brown and white.
Similar and opposite
Similar:
- barren lands
- frozen plain
Where tundra comes from
From Russian, which took it from a word in the Sami languages.
Test yourself
Which word fills the gap?
From the plane window the _____ looked like a crumpled sheet of brown and white.
- tundra
- florilegium
- virga
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tundra: From the plane window the tundra looked like a crumpled sheet of brown and white.