SIBERIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Siberian mean? 

• SIBERIAN (noun)
  The noun SIBERIAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Siberia

  Familiarity information: SIBERIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• SIBERIAN (adjective)
  The adjective SIBERIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Siberia or the Siberians

  Familiarity information: SIBERIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIBERIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Siberia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Siberian" is a kind of...):

Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Siberian"):

Chukchi (a member of an indigenous people living on the Chukchi Peninsula)

Holonyms ("Siberian" is a member of...):

Siberia (a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters)

Derivation:

Siberian (of or relating to or characteristic of Siberia or the Siberians)

• SIBERIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Siberia or the Siberians

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the Siberian tundra

Pertainym:

Siberia (a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters)

Derivation:

Siberia (a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters)

Siberian (a native or inhabitant of Siberia)

 Context examples 

The individual derives his ancestry from a mixture of Ancient North Siberian DNA and East Asian DNA, which is very similar to that found in Native Americans.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

I remember Winters, a newspaper fellow with an Alaskan and Siberian reputation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Siberian fir oil is used in aromatherapy and perfumes.

(Abies sibirica Leaf Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

There were Slavonian hunters, fair-skinned and mighty-muscled; short, squat Finns, with flat noses and round faces; Siberian half-breeds, whose noses were more like eagle-beaks; and lean, slant-eyed men, who bore in their veins the Mongol and Tartar blood as well as the blood of the Slav.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

For the current study, Büntgen and his collaborators, sampled more than 1100 living and dead mountain pines from the Spanish Pyrenees and 660 Siberian larch samples from the Russian Altai: both high-elevation forest sites that have been undisturbed for thousands of years.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

Using published data from the circumpolar Arctic, their own new field observations of Siberian permafrost and thermokarsts, radiocarbon dating, atmospheric modeling and spatial analyses, the research team studied how thawing permafrost is affecting climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

The remains are genetically very close to the ancestors of Paleo-Siberian speakers and close to the ancestors of Native Americans.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

It is an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the ancestry of Native Americans as you can see the Kolyma signature in the Native Americans and Paleo-Siberians.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

The researchers were able to pinpoint some of these ancestors as Asian people groups who mixed with the Ancient North Siberians.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

Remarkably, the Ancient North Siberians people are more closely related to Europeans than Asians and seem to have migrated all the way from Western Eurasia soon after the divergence between Europeans and Asians.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)