n. a biogeographic zone stretching from Labrador to Alaska, bounded on the south by the timber line (def. 2) and being roughly coterminous with the Barren Grounds.
1942  The south banks are strictly transition territory, from the last of the bush to the true barren land--a no-man's country between Hudsonian zone and the northern tundra.
1952  The Hudsonian Life Zone . . . extends from the timber limit to the south of James Bay, Lake Mistassini and Pointe de Monts on the North Shore.