holarctic

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English

Alternative forms

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, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →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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