Taiga

From Russian Ñ‚Ð°Ð¹Ð³Ð° (tajgÃ¡), from South Siberian (Altai region, for example the Altay or Shor language),

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or alternatively Yakut Ñ‚Ð°Ð¹Ð³Ð° (tajga, "untraversable forest").

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Full definition of taiga

(plural taigas)

A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.

2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 197: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.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 871:Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysteriousâ€”a heroic being with unearthly gifts.
2013-03, Nancy Langston, Mining the Boreal North, Reindeer are well suited to the taigaâ€™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.