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| Arapaho |
a member of a North American Indian tribe that formerly lived in the western plains from Texas and New Mexico to Canada, and now lives in Oklahoma and Wyoming. [1/2 definitions] |
| arctic |
(often cap.) of or pertaining to the geographic region encompassing the North Pole. [1/5 definitions] |
| Arctic Circle |
an imaginary line drawn around the earth parallel to the equator and south of the North Pole. |
| Arctic Ocean |
an ocean that surrounds the North Pole; Arctic. |
| aurora borealis |
the aurora of the Northern Hemisphere, seen esp. near the North Pole; northern lights. |
| Australasia |
Australia, New Zealand, and nearby islands south of the equator and north through Malaysia and the Philippines. |
| Austria |
a central European country that lies between Germany and the Czech Republic to the north and Italy and Slovenia to the south. |
| azimuth |
an arc measured horizontally and clockwise from a point north, in navigation, or a point south, in astronomy, to another point where a vertical circle intersects the horizon. [1/2 definitions] |
| Balkan States |
the countries on the Balkan Peninsula, including Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and European Turkey; the Balkans. |
| Baltimore oriole |
an orange and black North American songbird that builds finely woven, pendant nests. |
| Barbary ape |
a tailless monkey native to North Africa and Gibraltar. |
| Barbary Coast |
the North African Mediterranean coast from Egypt to the Atlantic, formerly known as a base for pirates. |
| bay lynx |
the bobcat of North America. |
| Bedouin |
any tribe or member of a tribe of Arab nomads living in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, or North Africa. [1/2 definitions] |
| Belgium |
a country on the North Sea, bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, and France. |
| Berber |
a member of one of several North African Muslim tribes. [1/2 definitions] |
| Bering Sea |
a northern extension of the Pacific Ocean between Russia and Alaska, north of the Aleutian Islands. |
| Bermuda |
a British colony comprising a group of islands southeast of North Carolina. |
| Bethlehem |
a hill town north of Jerusalem in Israeli-occupied Jordan, traditionally considered the birthplace of Jesus Christ. |
| bighorn |
a wild sheep found in the Rocky Mountains of North America, the male of which has large, curved horns. (See Rocky Mountain sheep.) |
| bilberry |
any of several woody wild or cultivated North American plants that produce edible dark blue berries. [1/2 definitions] |
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