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tundra
a vast, treeless arctic region with permanently frozen subsoil
Synonyms
- barrens
tundra in a sentence
Herds of caribou migrate across the tundra each summer in search of food.
Scientists trekked across the tundra for weeks, recording how the frozen ground shaped the sparse plant life.
Where it comes from
From Russian tundra 'treeless plain'
Memory hook
TUNDRA sounds like thunder, but picture a frozen, windswept plain instead of storms.
Read it in context
- The Line Between Gardens Narrative