Word Meanings - HOLARCTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif.

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• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• ARCTIC
  Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature. Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• SPECIFIABLE
  Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
• SPECIFICALNESS
  The quality of being specific.
• SPECIFICATION
  1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation
• SPECIFICATE
  To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify. ir M. Hale.
• SPECIFICAL
  Specific. Bacon.
• SPECIFIC
  Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• HOLARCTIC
  Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif.
• NEARCTIC
  Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.
• ANTARCTIC
  Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
• DESPECIFICATE
  To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.
• PALEARCTIC
  Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
• PROCATARCTIC
  Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial. Note: The words procatarctic causes have been used with different significations. Thus they have been employed synonymously with prime causes, exciting causes, and predisposing or remote causes.
• DESPECIFICATION
  Discrimination.
• SUBARCTIC
  Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.