palearctic

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(pā′lē ärk′tik, -är′tik or, esp. Brit., pal′ē-)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
pa•le•arc•tic  (pā′lē ärk′tik, -är′tik or, esp. Brit., pal′ē-),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. Geography[Zoogeog.]belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
Also, paleoarctic. 
  • pale- + arctic 1855–60

'palearctic' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Holarctic - paleoarctic

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