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- With the exception of our little cove, the other beaches sloped gently back for a distance of half-a-mile or so, into what I might call rocky meadows, with here and there patches of moss and tundra grass.†
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- Tundra grass was impracticable.†
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- "Let us gather tundra grass and thatch the roof," Maud said.†
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- "I think the tundra grass will make just as good a roof," she said.†
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- I think tundra grass, will do, after all.†
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Definitions:
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(tundra) a vast treeless plain in the northern arctic regions where the subsoil is always frozen (between the ice cap and the tree line)More rarely, tundra can refer to alpine tundra (similar areas found elsewhere at high elevation).
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Tundra can refer to a model of a Toyota truck.