tundra
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tundra /ˈtʌndrə/
▶noun a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
– origin C16: from Lappish.
'tundra' also found in these Oxford entries:
barnacle goose
- bean goose
- Bewick's swan
- biome
- dotterel
- musk ox
- plover
- reindeer
- snowy owl
- taiga
- tundra swan
- whistling swan
- wolverine
