Arctic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Arctic/ˈɑːktɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to the regions around the North Pole.
■ living or growing in such regions.
- 2 (arctic) informal (of weather) very cold.
- 1 (the Arctic) the regions around the North Pole.
- 2 US a thick waterproof overshoe.
- 3 (arctic) a drab-coloured hairy butterfly of the arctic and subarctic regions of the New World. [Genus Oenis.]
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. arcticus, articus, based on Gk arktos ‘bear, Ursa Major, Pole Star’.
'Arctic' also found in these Oxford entries:
Antarctic
- barnacle goose
- bean goose
- beluga
- boreal
- bowhead whale
- frigid zone
- glaucous gull
- gyrfalcon
- harlequin
- Holarctic
- husky
- Iceland poppy
- jaeger
- lemming
- little auk
- midnight sun
- Mongoloid
- mountain avens
- mukluk
- narwhal
- Nearctic
- ocean
- pemmican
- polar bear
- pollan
- pomarine skua
- ptarmigan
- reindeer moss
- right whale
- Samoyed
- seven
- skua
- snow bunting
- snow goose
- snowy owl
- souslik
- subarctic
- torgoch
- tundra
- tundra swan
- walrus
