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Holarctic
[ ho-lahrk-tik, -ahr-tik, hoh- ]
adjective
- belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
Holarctic
/ həʊˈlɑːktɪk /
adjective
- of or denoting a zoogeographical region consisting of the Palaearctic and Nearctic regions
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Holarctic1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Holarctic1
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Example Sentences
But these distinctions should be and are retained in the divisions of the Holarctic.
So on the whole, this region has not developed so rapidly as the Holarctic.
There are no orders, and there seem to be no families which are found in the Holarctic and nowhere else.
In the second place, the line of migration seems to have been outward from the holarctic region.
In our part of the Holarctic, that is, the Nearctic, the familiar birds about us do not nest also in the tropical regions.
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