Tundra

From LoveToKnow 1911

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TUNDRA (a Russian word, signifying a marshy plain), in physical geography, the name applied to the treeless and often marshy plains which border the arctic coasts of Europe, Asia FIG. 17. - Cancer of the sigmoid flexure of the colon.

and North America. The Russian tundra, apart from the arctic conditions of climate and flora, may be compared with the steppes farther south.


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