Taiga Definition

tīgə
noun
A type of transitional plant community that is located between the arctic tundra and the boreal coniferous forests, having scattered trees: often it is considered to include the N regions of the boreal forests.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A lake in Alaska.

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Other Word Forms of Taiga

Noun

Singular:
taiga
Plural:
taigas

Origin of Taiga

  • From Russian тайга (tajgá), from South Siberian Turkic (Altai region, for example the Altay or Shor language), or alternatively Yakut тайга (tayga, “untraversable forest").

    From Wiktionary

  • Russian taĭga of Altaic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Taiga Sentence Examples

  • Its course takes it through a taiga forest, full of evergreen trees.

  • The lowland (taiga) in the east comprises a plain with flat-topped hills covered by taiga vegetation with large open areas.

  • Three nights Varangerfjord Day 11 We spend the day driving back into Finland to spend a night back in the taiga zone.

  • They are chiefly hunters, passionately loving their taiga, or wild forests, and have maintained their Shaman religion and tribal organization into suoks.

  • In the meantime a couple of new mp3 files have also been added to the taiga blues pages on soundclick.

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Words Starting With

TTATAI

Words Ending With

AGAIGA

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