subtropic
IPA: sʌbtrˈɑpɪk
noun
- A subtropical region.
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Examples of "subtropic" in Sentences
- The shrub grows in the subtropical wetlands.
- The subtropical gyre is a high pressure zone.
- It is part of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre.
- The clouds are the edges of Subtropical Storm Andrea.
- The foothills descend into the subtropical Duars Plain.
- It is the southern side of a clockwise subtropical gyre.
- In the lower elevations, the climate is humid subtropical.
- The vegetation is of mesquite and subtropical desert species.
- They are found predominantly in semiarid subtropical habitats.
- Mesquite is considered to be part of the humid subtropical region.
- They are favored, too, by a kindly climate, subtropic in its mildness.
- A subtropic, constantly wet climate prevails with annual precipitation between
- We would be passing from fall weather in Montreal into subtropic weather in the Pacific.
- It is simply one of the hundred unsolvable mysteries and puzzles of the subtropic region.
- The second is Hill-grown rice that can be grown in almost any tropical or subtropic terrain.
- Retracing Ertl's survey, the group used dynamite to clear a six-mile path through the threatened subtropic forest of the eastern Andes.
- It can be caused by any one of four separate but related viruses carried by infected mosquitoes, most commonly the mosquito Aedes aegypti, found in tropic and subtropic areas.
- The human colony on the planet of Sao Paulo was only a little more than ten years old, and the majority of its towns were situated in the subtropic zone of the snaky eastern continent that stretched almost from pole to pole.
- A canal crosses this little isthmus and once it interlocked the east and west, the arctic plains with the subtropic cane fields; but it has given over its work to the railroads, having served, however, I have no doubt, to water the roots of the beautiful town that bears the generic name of all those places where burdens were borne between waters.
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