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Grammar : Noun
Spell : tuhn-druh, too n-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʌn drə, ˈtʊn-



Définition of tundra

Origin :
  • an Arctic steppe, 1841, from Russian tundra, from Lappish tundar "elevated wasteland."
  • noun plain
Example sentences :
  • The snow was sifting over the tundra in icy gusts from the westward.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of a Sourdough » by May Kellogg Sullivan
  • Would it be in the tall mountains, or on the tundra, or out on the roof of the sea?
  • Extract from : « Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends » by Roy J. Snell
  • Now the snow had almost all gone from the mountains and the tundra.
  • Extract from : « Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends » by Roy J. Snell
  • He likes to fight all the little folks of the tundra and sea because he is so big.
  • Extract from : « Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends » by Roy J. Snell
  • He went wandering all over the tundra, looking for something to eat.
  • Extract from : « Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends » by Roy J. Snell
  • What was more, she was leaving the tundra; the broad-stretching deer pastures of the Arctics.
  • Extract from : « The Purple Flame » by Roy J. Snell
  • There were the broad stretches of tundra, a hundred square miles for every reindeer.
  • Extract from : « The Purple Flame » by Roy J. Snell
  • Should they fail, she might indeed return to the tundra, but she knew it could never be the same to her.
  • Extract from : « The Purple Flame » by Roy J. Snell
  • A half mile up from the camp the tundra was brown with feeding reindeer.
  • Extract from : « The Purple Flame » by Roy J. Snell
  • She had been loath to leave her grandfather back there alone on the tundra.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Longbow » by Roy J. Snell

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