tundra
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tundra¹
- /ˈtʌndɹə/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Russian ту́ндра (túndra), borrowed from Kildin Sami тӯндрэ (tūndre), from Proto-Sami *tuontër (“a kind of mountain in Lapland”).
noun tundras
- A flat and treeless Arctic biome. The hut's walls rose without difficulty, and everything went smoothly until the problem of the roof confronted me. Of what use the four walls without a roof? And of what could a roof be made? There were the spare oars, very true. They would serve as roof-beams; but with what was I to cover them? Mos
- A long stretch of something, such as time. His wife and he were childhood sweethearts; he had known her for 25 years. (He will call her “my wife” throughout, just as he cannot bear to name his two sons, however carefully and lovingly he will eventually describe them. They remain “the older one” and “the younger one.”) There are tundras of ti
Tundra²
proper noun
- A surname from Romanian.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: snow, ecotone, cygnus, moss, swan, barren, trumpeter, swans, tundra tyre, subarctic, steppe, talik, fellfield, topek, desertscape, permafrost
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noun flat treeless arctic region
| Español | tundra |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 툰드라 tundeura |
| 日本語 | ツンドラ tsundora, 凍原 tōgen |
| 中文 | 凍原 /冻原 dòngyuán, 苔原 táiyuán, 凍土層 /冻土层 dòngtǔcéng |
| हिन्दी | टुंड्रा ṭuṇḍrā, तुन्द्रा tundrā |
| Português | tundra |
| Français | toundra |
| Deutsch | Tundra |
| Italiano | tundra |
| Ελληνικά | τούντρα toúntra, τούνδρα toúndra |
| Română | tundră |
| Русский | ту́ндра túndra |
| Tiếng Việt | đài nguyên, đồng rêu, lãnh nguyên |
| العربية | تُنْدْرَا tundrā |
| עברית | טוּנְדְרָה túndra |
Talk about this word "tundra." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tundra. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tundra. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tundra "tundra." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tundra.Cite this
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title = {tundra},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tundra},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
