transcription, транскрипция: [ ri-ˈfyü-jē-əm ]
noun
( plural re·fu·gia -jē-ə)
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, refuge
Date: 1943
: an area of relatively unaltered climate that is inhabited by plants and animals during a period of continental climatic change (as a glaciation) and remains as a center of relict forms from which a new dispersion and speciation may take place after climatic readjustment