steppe-tundra

English

Noun

steppe-tundra (plural steppe-tundras)

1. A very cold dry-climate vegetation type consisting of mostly treeless open herbaceous vegetation, widespread during Pleistocene times at mid-latitudes of Eurasia and during some phases in North America.

Synonyms

• mammoth steppe

Translations

very cold dry-climate vegetation type

• Finnish: arotundra