Holarctic: adj. "Holarctic" is a term used in biogeography bringing together the Nearctic and Palearctic regions, namely North America, Africa north of the Atlas Mountains and Eurasia north of the Himalayas. These are the land regions north of the Tropic of Cancer.
The term means “all the northern hemisphere” (understood without the tropical zone), from “hol-”, all, entire, and “arctic”, from the northern hemisphere (from arctos, bear in Greek, therefore the region of "Bears" (the ...
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