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subatˈlantic, a.
Also Subatlantic, sub-Atlantic.
1. [sub- 1 e.] Under the Atlantic Ocean.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2507/2 The subatlantic cable enterprise.
2. [sub- 18.] Pertaining to or designating a European climatic period that followed the Sub-boreal and which is still current. Also absol.
1876[see Arctic a. 3]. 1935Discovery July 198/2 A fair number of these species has even survived the last climatic phase, the humid Subatlantic time (after 500 b.c.). 1957E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways xiv. 186 The onset of the sub-Atlantic climatic deterioration in the last millennium b.c. seems to have accelerated the peat⁓forming processes. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles vi. 149 The growing of cereals [in Yorkshire]..would have been difficult..at any time since the onset of the Sub-atlantic. |