holarctic
English
Alternative forms
- Holarctic
Etymology
From holo- + Arctic.
Adjective
holarctic (not comparable)
- (biology) Distributed in a geographic range around the North Pole; restricted to Arctic regions.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page ix:
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
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Related terms
- Antarctic
- Arctic
- Nearctic
- Palaearctic