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单词 subtropically
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subtropicallyadv.

Brit. /ˌsʌbˈtrɒpᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈtrɑpək(ə)li/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: subtropical adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < subtropical adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. In a location adjacent to or bordering on the tropics; in the subtropics.
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1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. xxii. 222 Morro Velho is sub-tropically situated in S. lat. 19° 58'.
1939 W. L. Tressler in F. R. Moulton Probl. Lake Biol. 80 Daphnids were found only on the Island of Flores in the tropics and subtropically in Hawaii.
1989 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 76 1050/1 The largest genus of the subfamily..contains about 50 species..distributed tropically and subtropically in both hemispheres.
2004 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 49 1180/1 Hypothermal mortality of Elops in northern estuaries may be expected, as occurs for other subtropically spawned species.
2. In a way characteristic or suggestive of the subtropics; in a subtropical manner.
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1882 2nd Rep. State Mineralogist Calif. App. 79 She [sc. the Madrona tree] sub-tropically overlaps the rolling year with ceaseless glory.
1910 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. 8/4 Greenland, Spitzbergen, and the other Arctic isles must once have been sub-tropically warm.
1934 R. Kipling Let. Mar. (2004) VI. 255 On the steep side of the hill which drops on our west border on to the main road, the orange trees and verbenas grow almost sub-tropically.
1976 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 3 17/1 Most of the species of these families that occur in Argentina are tropically or subtropically adapted.
2004 P. Harrison Ecotravel 49/1 Approximately 38 km to the east..is the town of Tzaneen, a subtropically warm place around which great volumes of banana, avocado, mango and citrus fruits are grown.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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