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NEARCTIC

\nˈi͡əktɪk], \nˈi‍əktɪk], \n_ˈiə_k_t_ɪ_k]\

Definitions of NEARCTIC

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English

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Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

n[=e]-ark'tik, adj. of or pertaining to the northern part of the New World--embracing temperate and arctic North America.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

(zool.). Of arctic& temperate parts of N. America. [Greek]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

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