Tundra Meaning
/ˈtʌndɹə/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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nounA 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? Moss would never do. Tundra grass was impracticable. We needed the sail for the boat, and the tarpaulin had begun to leak."— 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
nounA 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 time for him to cross and cross again as he recalls their life together and its sudden end: a quarter‐century of quotidian love and bruises and the ultimate estrangement of long familiarity."— 1979 August 12, Ivan Gold, “One Man's Family”, in The New York Times:
nameA surname from Romanian.
Sentence Examples
The tundra has a harsh climate.
Are there many mice in the tundra?
Are there many arctic foxes in the tundra?
CEFR Practice Quiz
Due to freezing temperatures and lack of trees, the northern region is called the ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The Arctic ____ is a vast and treeless region where the ground is frozen for almost the entire school year today.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Due to freezing temperatures and lack of trees, the northern region is called the ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The Arctic ____ is a vast and treeless region where the ground is frozen for almost the entire school year today.