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taiga
noun 
  1. A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 871:
    • :Like the , he was everywhere, and mysterious"a heroic being with unearthly gifts.
Etymology: From (Russ.) (term, Ñ, , tr=tajga, sc=RUchar), from Mongolian.

     
 
  

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