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subˈpolar, a.
[Cf. Sp. subpolar.]
1. [sub- 12 b.] Adjacent to the poles or polar sea.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xlix. IV. 485 Beginning at 84° N. L. he [sc. Latreille] has seven Arctic ones, which he names polar, subpolar, superior, intermediate, supratropical, tropical, and equatorial.
2. [sub- 1 a] Beneath the pole of the heavens.
1876C. H. Davis Polaris Exp. iv. 96 The latitude of the southern entrance of Repulse Harbor, determined..by a meridian subpolar observation. 1883Proctor Gt. Pyramid iii. 154 The subpolar meridional passage of [Alpha Draconis]. |