steppe-tundra

noun

A very cold dry-climate vegetation type consisting of mostly treeless open herbaceous vegetation, widespread during Pleistocene times at mid-latitudes of Eurasia and during some phases in North America.

Similar
mammoth steppe
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Meanings

nounsteppe-tundra (plural steppe-tundras)

plural steppe-tundras

  1. A very cold dry-climate vegetation type consisting of mostly treeless open herbaceous vegetation, widespread during Pleistocene times at mid-latitudes of Eurasia and during some phases in North America.

    Synonyms: mammoth steppe

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA very cold dry-climate vegetation type consisting of mostly treeless open herbaceous vegetation, widespread during Pleistocene times at mid-latitudes of Eurasia and during some phases in North America.

Similar
mammoth steppe

Translations

Finnish arotundra
  • arotundravery cold dry-climate vegetation type
Polish stepotundra
  • stepotundravery cold dry-climate vegetation type
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Chicago

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