| 单词 | land of little sticks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLand of Little Sticks Land of Little Sticks n. (also Land of the Little Sticks) Canadian a sub-arctic region of northern Canada, whose vegetation includes stunted and dwarf trees. land of the free: see free n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Northern Canada Land of Little Sticks1896 1896 C. Whitney On Snow-Shoes to Barren Grounds xvi. 187 No man may consider himself an expert until he has driven dogs and handled a sledge over such country as that approaching the Land of the Little Sticks. 1930 R. W. Service Coll. Verse 301 Why do you linger all alone in the splendid emptiness, Scouring the Land of the Little Sticks on the trail of the caribou? 1965 F. Symington Tuktu 9 Urged by the high suns of May, the snow retreats through the land of the Little Sticks and the caribou pour out on the tundra. 1993 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Aug. 39/1 East of the North Arm, you're in the Land of Little Sticks, the Dene name for the rugged granite and uncountable lakes of the Canadian Shield where stunted birches, pine and spruce somehow cling to the rock. < as lemmas |
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