: a moist subarctic forest dominated by conifers (such as spruce and fir) that begins where the tundra ends
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Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern Hemisphere.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
Rather than dropping 100 competitors into a single map as PUBG does, Prologue puts a lone player in a wooden cabin in a randomized taiga forest eight square kilometers in size.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Boreal forests, also known as taiga, are the world’s biggest biome and cover subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2025
The action hops from the streets of London to a monastery outside Ankara to Kraven’s Siberian taiga hideout, where Calypso puts her summer camp archery skills to good use with a crossbow.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
Rather than dropping 100 competitors into a single map as PUBG does, Prologue puts a lone player in a wooden cabin in a randomized taiga forest eight square kilometers in size.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Boreal forests, also known as taiga, are the world’s biggest biome and cover subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2025
The action hops from the streets of London to a monastery outside Ankara to Kraven’s Siberian taiga hideout, where Calypso puts her summer camp archery skills to good use with a crossbow.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Taiga.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/taiga. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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taiga
noun
tai·ga
ˈtī-gə 
: a moist northern forest that consists mostly of cone-producing trees (as pines, spruces, and firs) and begins where the tundra ends
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