Definition of submontane in English:
submontane
adjective ˌsʌbˈmɒnteɪnˌsəbˈmɑnteɪn
1Passing under or through mountains.
- 1.1 Situated in the foothills or lower slopes of a mountain range.
Example sentencesExamples
- Sheep breeding is the main object of livestock farming, and Macedonians hold dear their exquisite sheep's milk yoghurt, ovcho kiselo mleko, especially that made by shepherds in alpine submontane dairies.
- The pollination biology of Aechmea pectinata was studied in a submontane rainforest in south-eastern Brazil.
- Thus, a typical sequence on tropical mountains is from lowland tropical forest, through submontane, montane, and subalpine vegetation zones to the alpine zones of grasses and shrubs.
- In the Australian physiognomic classification system, the CFF is considered a complex notophyll vine forest type that is more generally defined as a submontane tropical rain forest.
Definition of submontane in US English:
submontane
adjectiveˌsəbˈmɑnteɪnˌsəbˈmäntān
1Passing under or through mountains.
- 1.1 Situated in the foothills or lower slopes of a mountain range.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the Australian physiognomic classification system, the CFF is considered a complex notophyll vine forest type that is more generally defined as a submontane tropical rain forest.
- Sheep breeding is the main object of livestock farming, and Macedonians hold dear their exquisite sheep's milk yoghurt, ovcho kiselo mleko, especially that made by shepherds in alpine submontane dairies.
- Thus, a typical sequence on tropical mountains is from lowland tropical forest, through submontane, montane, and subalpine vegetation zones to the alpine zones of grasses and shrubs.
- The pollination biology of Aechmea pectinata was studied in a submontane rainforest in south-eastern Brazil.