Definitions for Nearctic

Nearctic Ne·arc·tic

Spelling: [nee-ahrk-tik, -ahr-]
IPA: /niˈɑrk tɪk, -ˈɑr-/

Nearctic is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in Nearctic (acceinrt).

Definitions for Nearctic

adjective

  1. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising temperate Greenland and arctic North America, sometimes including high mountainous regions of the northern Temperate Zone.

Origin of Nearctic

First recorded in 1855-60; ne- + arctic

Examples for Nearctic

I have studied the baculum in chipmunks and in all the major supraspecific groups of Nearctic squirrels.

The Turnstone breeds throughout the northern parts of the Nearctic and Palæarctic regions, as far as land is known to extend.

As yet no remains have been found in the Nearctic Region, where Lemuroid remains occur so abundantly.

The boundaries of the North American or Nearctic region have been sufficiently indicated.

Nearctic: temperate and arctic North America, including Greenland.

The genus is confined to the Palaearctic and the Nearctic regions.

It is the Bernicla glaucogaster of Brehm, and, as far as is known, breeds only in the Nearctic region.

In our part of the Holarctic, that is, the Nearctic, the familiar birds about us do not nest also in the tropical regions.

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