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Stage 1 of 2
taiga
Russian · 1800s
"subarctic coniferous forest"
the vast coniferous forest belt of the subarctic, borrowed from a Siberian Turkic language
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Stage 2 of 2
taiga
English · 1880s
"the subarctic coniferous forest biome"
adopted directly for the biome by geographers
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