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The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.
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The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.
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A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
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A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68ยก N.
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A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
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A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.
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The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).
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A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.
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Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
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