: a moist subarctic forest dominated by conifers (such as spruce and fir) that begins where the tundra ends
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Over the course of nearly a decade, the documentary follows a religious community in the Siberian taiga.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern Hemisphere.
—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
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern Hemisphere.
—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
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“Taiga.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/taiga. Accessed 29 Apr. 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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