subarctic
IPA: sʌbˈɑrktɪk
noun
- (geography) The region immediately outside of the Arctic Circle or regions similar to these in climate or conditions of life.
- A subarctic region.
adjective
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of the subarctic.
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Examples of "subarctic" in Sentences
- I'd call it Mediterranean subarctic.
- The climate of the area is subarctic.
- A Subarctic climate can be found farther north.
- The climate of the interior of Alaska is subarctic.
- These species breed in the subarctic North Pacific.
- This corresponds to a continental subarctic climate.
- The subarctic climate is a subset of the continental climate.
- The postglacial development of boreal and subarctic peatlands.
- It is also found sparingly across the boreal forest and the subarctic.
- Based on the article this bird is not arctic but rather subarctic at best.
- The brutal subarctic cold made it all the worse, attacking our shriveling bodies.
- Because they are subarctic penguins we could not use them in any exterior scenes when we were filming.
- To get there you have to fly to Siberia, take an aging turboprop plane deep into the taiga, or subarctic forest.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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