Taiga

//ˈtaɪɡə//

"Taiga" in a Sentence (11 examples)

We walked through the taiga.

He noticed a deer in the taiga.

It is snowy and warm in the Siberian taiga in spring.

A little more than 40 hours after leaving Moscow's Yaroslavsky station, the Vorkuta Express pulled into its terminus after a 2,000-kilometer journey through the taiga forests and tundra of Russia's far north.

We climbed the highest hill. Below us, around us, far ahead — everywhere was only endless taiga.

The taiga ecosystem is the largest biome on Earth and is home to many species of coniferous trees.

They were on their way out into the taiga to cut wood and hew timbers under a guard of Cossacks.

Spring in the taiga quickly gives way to summer.

The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.

Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.

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Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

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