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tundra
Meaning: a vast, treeless arctic region with permanently frozen subsoil
tundra in a sentence
How tundra is used in real sentences:
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.
“Years earlier, his fieldwork on the tundra, where no tree broke the Arctic horizon, had shown him caribou routes broken by careless barriers.”
— from the passage The Line Between Gardens
Synonyms for tundra
Other words for tundra — barrens — carry the same meaning.
- barrens
Where it comes from
From Russian tundra 'treeless plain'
Memory hook
TUNDRA sounds like thunder, but picture a frozen, windswept plain instead of storms.