Nearctic

[ nee-ahrk-tik, -ahr- ]

adjective

, Biogeography.

1. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising temperate Greenland and Arctic North America, sometimes including high mountainous regions of the northern Temperate Zone.

Nearctic

/ nɪˈɑːktɪk /

adjective

1. of or denoting a zoogeographical region consisting of North America, north of the tropic of Cancer, and Greenland

Word History and Origins

Origin of Nearctic¹

First recorded in 1855–60; ne- + Arctic

Example Sentences

I have studied the baculum in chipmunks and in all the major supraspecific groups of Nearctic squirrels.

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The genus is confined to the Palaearctic and the Nearctic regions.

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The boundaries of the North American or Nearctic region have been sufficiently indicated.

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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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As yet no remains have been found in the Nearctic Region, where Lemuroid remains occur so abundantly.

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