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Your word for today is: arctician, n.

arctician, n.

Pronunciation: Brit. /ɑːkˈtɪʃn/,  U.S. /ɑrkˈtɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology: <  Arctic n. + -ian suffix; compare -ician suffix.

 1.  An animal that is well adapted to the Arctic or comfortable in Arctic conditions. rare.

a1841  ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes (1842) I. 153 Ursus Maritimus, or the white bear, Arctician, is a specimen of majesty.

1930  M. L. C. Davis Uncle Sam's Attic xii. 115 Domestic animals brought to our Alaskan North begin at once to become arcticians and to arcticize.

2.  A specialist in matters related to the Arctic; an Arctic explorer.

1860  A. FitzRoy in Meteorol. Paper (Board of Trade) No. 4. p. vii, The extraordinary drift of the Resolute, the drift of Parry's ships, that of De Haven,..have more connexion with each other, with the general currents of those seas, and with ships forced upon ice in Polar regions, than the Arcticians themselves..admit.

1947 Mag. of Year Oct. 47/1 A much less publicized American expedition..is that commanded by a Naval Reserve arctician, Commander Finn Ronne.

2004  P. G Geller Northern Exposures xvii. 38 At first the patrol set out aboard a government vessel, the Arctic..with ‘veteran arctician’ J.-E. Bernier as the captain.

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