holarctic

English

Alternative forms

• Holarctic

Etymology

From holo- +‎ Arctic.

Adjective

holarctic (not comparable)

1. (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.

Related terms

• Antarctic
• Arctic
• Nearctic
• Palearctic