||Tun"dra (?), n. [Russ., from a native
name.] A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.
||Tun"dra (?), n. [Russ.] One of
the level or undulating treeless plains characteristic of northern
arctic regions in both hemispheres. The tundras mark the limit of
arborescent vegetation; they consist of black mucky soil with a
permanently frozen subsoil, but support a dense growth of mosses and
lichens, and dwarf herbs and shrubs, often showy-flowered.
||Tun"dra (?), n. [Russ., from a native
name.] A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.
||Tun"dra (?), n. [Russ.] One of
the level or undulating treeless plains characteristic of northern
arctic regions in both hemispheres. The tundras mark the limit of
arborescent vegetation; they consist of black mucky soil with a
permanently frozen subsoil, but support a dense growth of mosses and
lichens, and dwarf herbs and shrubs, often showy-flowered.
