Origin of taiga
Examples from the Web for taiga
The town is not much to speak of—a few wooden houses along a snowy road in Taiga, some tiny food stores, a Kavkaz café.Is Pussy Riot’s Nadia Tolokonnikova in a Siberian Gulag?|Anna Nemtsova|November 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The gale howled round the walls with increasing fury, the taiga groaned more and more sadly.
Then came the formation called the Taiga, a sort of Arctic moorland, which becomes swampy and dangerous in summer.Some Reminiscences of old Victoria|Edgar Fawcett
But Gavronsky suddenly went out to the 'Taiga' on the Yenisei and disappeared.Beasts, Men and Gods|Ferdinand Ossendowski
The country is rocky and mountainous, and the taiga spreads over it in all directions for hundreds and thousands of versts.
Our next meeting was at Taiga, and it was quite a great event.With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia|John Ward
British Dictionary definitions for taiga
Word Origin for taiga
Word Origin and History for taiga
belt of coniferous forests in Siberia, 1869, from Russian taiga, which is of Mongolian origin.