Definitions
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- adjective the colder parts of temperate waters
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Examples
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Owing to a greater influence of warm Atlantic or Pacific water, the other systems are of a cold-temperate type.
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Dominant cold-temperate conifer class from the CVMCC Vegetation Map of China is the basis for the boundary, along with evergreen broadleaf and alpine shrub.
Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests 2008
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The flora of both islands is typical of southern cold-temperate oceanic islands with relatively low species diversity, and a large preponderance of ferns and cryptogams.
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The CVMCC Vegetation Map of China classes included are: cold-temperate spruce and fir, alpine evergreen broadleaf, and mixed evergreen and deciduous broadleaf.
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Dominant species in the region include such distinctly cold-temperate species as sagebrushes (Artemisia), saltbrushes (Atriplex), and winterfat (Ceratoides lanata).
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The vegetation of the Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island group is typical of southern cold-temperate oceanic islands, having relatively low species diversity, and a large prevalence of ferns and other cryptogams.
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While the lowlands of Hokkaido represent a transitional zone between cool temperate forests to the south and subarctic forests to the north, this mostly upland ecoregion is situated in the cold-temperate and subarctic/subalpine climate zones.
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Unlike the other three, which have almost exclusive ties to warm-temperate and tropical/subtropical vegetation types, the Great Basin has affinities with cold-temperate vegetation.
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Thus, the acicular-leaved trees, consisting of Pines and their congeners, mark the cold-temperate and sub-arctic zones, in north latitude, -- while Myrtles,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various
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On these rides, I continually passed through, and while lying in ambush I often saw, a wealth of wild life, in numbers and variety such as the western world, and the cold-temperate regions of the Old World, have not seen for many, many thousands of years.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916
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