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Nearctic

[ nee-ahrk-tik, -ahr- ]

adjective

, Biogeography.
  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.


Nearctic

/ nɪˈɑːktɪk /

adjective

  1. of or denoting a zoogeographical region consisting of North America, north of the tropic of Cancer, and Greenland
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Nearctic1

First recorded in 1855–60; ne- + Arctic
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Example Sentences

One of the most durable myths that shapes the thinking about us is that we began living lives of untrammeled freedom and complete autonomy in the Nearctic garden and we fundamentally ended as people when the frontier was closed — that North America begins with Indians and America truly begins once we’re gone.

Taylor for fillies and mares, and British-bred Caspar Netscher took the Grade 2 $300,000 Nearctic Stakes.

The northernmost stretches of the Canadian tundra make more sense grouped with the Palearctic realm, which encompasses Siberia, Europe and North Asia, than with North America's Nearctic realm.

Study of the taxonomic resemblance shows that the dividing line, in eastern M�xico, between Nearctic and Neotropical faunas is along the eastern base of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the southern base of the Sierra de Tamaulipas and thence to the coast at or near Soto la Marina.

Of the remaining 24 genera, 16 occur in the North American part of the Nearctic Subregion or in it and the part of northern M�xico north of the Brazilian boundary, whereas eight occur in the Brazilian Subregion or in it and the northern part of M�xico.

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