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subˈarctic, a. (n.)
1. [sub- 12 b.] Nearly arctic; somewhat south of the arctic circle or regions; belonging to such a region. Also n. pl., subarctic regions.
1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 460 When sub-arctic molluscs lived in her [sc. Scotland's] sounds and bays. 1875J. Croll Clim. & Time xv. 236 As the ice began to accumulate during the cold periods in subarctic and temperate regions. 1892Stevenson Across the Plains vi. 204 It was still broad day in our subarctic latitude [in Caithness]. 1898J. W. Tyrrell (title) Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada.
2. [sub- 18.] Also Subarctic. Applied to a European climatic period that followed the Arctic and preceded the Preboreal.
1876[see Arctic a. 3]. 1935Discovery July 198/2 Relics from Arctic and Subarctic times during and soon after the last glaciation are still to be found in Scotland. 1973P. A. Colinvaux Introd. Ecol. vii. 93 There is peat between the Dryas-bearing bottom mud and the first line of stumps, a gradation probably, but one that could be used as a stratigraphic unit. It represented the sub⁓arctic period. |