Boreal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boreal \Bo"re*al\, a. [L. borealis: cf. F. bor['e]al. See
     {Boreas}.]
     1. Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind;
        as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.
        [1913 Webster]
  


              So from their own clear north in radiant streams,
              Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn.
                                                    --Thomson.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  124 Moby Thesaurus words for "boreal":
     Siberian, aeolian, aestival, airish, airy, algid, antarctic,
     arctic, austral, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter,
     bitterly cold, blasty, bleak, blowy, blustering, blusterous,
     blustery, breezy, brisk, brumal, canicular, cold, cold as charity,
     cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, drafty,
     east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost,
     equinoctial, favonian, flawy, freezing, freezing cold, fresh,
     frigid, gelid, glacial, gusty, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean,
     ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, meridional,
     midsummer, midwinter, nipping, nippy, north, northbound, northeast,
     northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost,
     northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, numbing, occidental,
     oriental, out of season, penetrating, piercing, pinching, puffy,
     raw, rigorous, seasonal, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy,
     solstitial, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly,
     southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest,
     southwesterly, southwestern, spring, springlike, squally,
     stone-cold, subzero, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery,
     supercooled, vernal, west, westbound, westerly, western,
     westernmost, windy, winter, winterbound, winterlike, wintery,
     wintry