Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Boreal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Boreal \Bo"re*al\, a. (Biogeography)
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[deg] C. (= 64.4[deg] F.). Its subdivisions are the
Arctic zone and
{Boreal zone}, the latter including the area between the
Arctic and Transition zones.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Boreal \Bo"re*al\, a. [L. borealis: cf. F. bor['e]al. See
{Boreas}.]
Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as,
a boreal bird; a boreal blast.
So from their own clear north in radiant streams,
Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. --Thomson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
boreal
adj 1: relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north
wind
2: toward or located in the north; "the boreal signs of the
Zodiac"
3: comprising or throughout far northern regions [syn: {circumboreal}]
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