arctic

Michael R. (United Kingdom)
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  1. denizen
    a plant or animal naturalized in a region
  2. incipient
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  3. phalarope
    small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics
  4. polar bear
    white bear of Arctic regions
  5. humus
    partially decomposed organic matter
  6. saprophagous
    feeding on dead or decaying animal matter
  7. narwhal
    an Arctic cetacean, the male of which has a long ivory tusk
  8. beluga
    valuable source of caviar and isinglass
  9. arctic fox
  10. musk ox
    large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland
  11. pinniped mammal
    aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
  12. walrus
    either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
  13. apotheosis
    model of excellence or perfection of a kind
  14. lemming
    any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution
  15. Arctic hare
    a large hare of northern North America
  16. gyrfalcon
    large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases
  17. wolf spider
    ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web
Created on Sun Apr 19 16:55:18 EDT 2009 (updated Mon Jan 25 04:23:00 EST 2010)

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