noun
taiga
TEYE-guh
noun
1
The vast belt of coniferous forest that stretches across the northern hemisphere, lying between the tundra to the north and grassy steppe to the south.
"Much of Siberia is covered by dense taiga forest."
"Wolves and moose roam the Canadian taiga."
How to Use Taiga
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe huge stretch of evergreen forest found across the far north of places like Russia and Canada.
Common mistake
Don't confuse with tundra — tundra is the treeless, frozen zone further north; taiga is the forested zone just south of it.
Easily confused with
Common pairings
taiga forest
the Siberian taiga
boreal taiga
Word Forms
taigas plural
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Etymology
From Russian тайга́ (tajgá), itself borrowed from a South Siberian Turkic or Yakut word for dense, hard-to-cross forest.