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Definition of Climatic zone
1. Noun. Any of the geographical zones loosely divided according to prevailing climate and latitude.
Specialized synonyms: Frigid Zone, Polar Region, Polar Zone, Temperate Zone, Semitropics, Subtropics
Specialized synonyms: Torrid Zone, Tropical Zone, Tropics
Lexicographical Neighbors of Climatic Zone
Literary usage of Climatic zone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Demand for Public Storage of Wheat in Pakistan by Thomas C. Pinckney (1989)
"Districts of Pakistan, by agro- climatic zone 20 2. Average shares and yields of
Pakistan's wheat ... Yield equation results, by agro- climatic zone 94 29. ..."
2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1898)
"This latter altitude, being taken from a higher hill, gives a fairer estimate of
the climatic zone in Wales as compared with the East Highlands, ..."
3. Principles of Human Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Sumner W. Cushing (1922)
"Among the five most useful metals, four, namely, iron, copper, lead, and zinc,
are so widely distributed that each climatic zone appears to have an abundant ..."
4. Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica by Edward Lear (1870)
"The first climatic zone rises from the sea level to a height of 1903 feet; ...
The second climatic zone of the island corresponds to the climate of France ..."
5. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"The distributions of some plant dominants also span more than one climatic zone,
eg, mesquite, creosote bush (Larrea tridentata), and the introduced ..."
6. Brazil by Anton Jakob, Fernanda Cordoeiro, Claus Jäke (2000)
"Right: A magnificent passionflower any climatic zone. "rain forest" is associated
with certain very specific climatic conditions - although they are found ..."
7. Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group, Paleocene) of by Albert E. Sanders (1998)
"The broad-leaved evergreen forest type is found associated with the Cs climatic
zone in southeast Asia. Analysis of the modern equivalents of the pollen and ..."