Lexic.us

Definition of Boreal

1. Adjective. Relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind.

2. Adjective. Toward or located in the north. "The boreal signs of the Zodiac"

3. Adjective. Comprising or throughout far northern regions.

Definition of Boreal

1. a. Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.

2. a. Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18° C. (= 64.4° F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and Boreal zone, the latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones.

Definition of Boreal

1. pertaining to the north [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boreal

Bordet-Gengou phenomenon Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar bordetella bordetella bronchiseptica bordetella infections Bordetella parapertussis Bordetella pertussis Bordet and Gengou reaction bordlode bords

bordure bordures bore bore bore-hole boreal (current term) Boreas boreases borecole borecole

borecoles bored boredom boredom boredoms boree boreen boreens borees borehole

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