Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or resembling regions just south of the Arctic Circle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nearly arctic; existing or occurring a little south of the arctic circle: as, a subarctic region or fauna; subarctic animals or plants; a subarctic climate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Region immediately outside of the
Arctic Circle or regions similar to these in climate or conditions of life. - adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the subarctic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle
Etymologies
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Examples
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I was supposed to be in subarctic America, and high up among the buttresses of the Rockies; yet there was that everlasting spread of flowers.
The Night-Born 1911
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As an author, the stories I tell are about our deepest superstitions (the devil peering out from a dark mirror at midnight, say, or the dark energies hidden in the land around us), so I take myself away to haunted places - places such as subarctic
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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As an author, the stories I tell are about our deepest superstitions (the devil peering out from a dark mirror at midnight, say, or the dark energies hidden in the land around us), so I take myself away to haunted places - places such as subarctic
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The brutal subarctic cold made it all the worse, attacking our shriveling bodies.
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As the Arctic Ocean north becomes less and less icy, commercial fisherman have begun eyeing these vast, untapped waters as an adjunct to the famously rich fishing grounds of the subarctic Bering Sea, west of Alaska.
Shifting spring: Arctic plankton blooming up to 50 days earlier now 2011
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Because the penguins were Gentoo penguins—subarctic penguins that were born in the Biodome in Montreal, Canada—it just took a little longer and it was more difficult to get them into New York.
Coddling Waddling Models Alexandra Cheney 2011
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Because they are subarctic penguins we could not use them in any exterior scenes when we were filming.
Coddling Waddling Models Alexandra Cheney 2011
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To get there you have to fly to Siberia, take an aging turboprop plane deep into the taiga, or subarctic forest.
Russian Oil Frontier: Nowhere Land Guy Chazan 2011
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Until now, no one had found a permanent or semi-permanent house associated with the hardy people who survived in an subarctic region even colder than it is today.
Scientists: Oldest human found in Alaska is a child, cremated 11,500 years ago 2011
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Until now, no one had found a permanent or semi-permanent house associated with the hardy people who survived in an subarctic region even colder than it is today.
Scientists: Oldest human found in Alaska is a child, cremated 11,500 years ago 2011
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