circumboreal

1. 1.

   comprising or throughout far northern regions

   Synonymsboreal

   Similarnorthern

Questions about circumboreal

What does circumboreal mean?

circumboreal means "comprising or throughout far northern regions".

How many syllables are in circumboreal?

circumboreal has 5 syllables: cir-cum-bo-re-al. The stress falls on "bo".

What is another word for circumboreal?

Close synonyms include boreal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is circumboreal a common word?

circumboreal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.