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árctico • ártico
Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet, characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape.
What neede the artick people loue star-light, To whom the sunne shines both by day and night.
[…] on th’ other side Incenc’t with indignation Satan stood Unterrifi’d, and like a Comet burn’d, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In th’ Artick Sky, and from his horrid hair…
glacial • árctico
Extremely cold, snowy, or having other properties of extreme winter associated with the Arctic.
‘Could you close that window, please!’ Strickland called, dialling again. ‘It's bloody arctic down this end.’
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árctico • ártico
A continental region consisting of the portion of the Earth north of the Arctic Circle, containing the North Pole.
I’ve visited the world from arctic to ecliptic, as a surgeon does a hospital, and find all men sick of some distemper […]
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