subarctic

[ suhb-ahrk-tik, -ahr-tik ]

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.

subarctic

/ sʌbˈɑːktɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to latitudes immediately south of the Arctic Circle

subarctic

/ sŭb′-ärk′tĭk,-är′tĭk /

1. Relating to the geographic area just south of the Arctic Circle. The subarctic region is the coldest part of the North Temperate Zone, characterized by warm but very brief summers, and bitterly cold winters. Little vegetation exists in this climate, as temperatures are extreme, ranging from below −30°C (−22°F) in the winter and as warm as 30°C (86°F) in the summer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of subarctic¹

First recorded in 1850–55; sub- + Arctic

Example Sentences

During season seven, which was held in the frigid subarctic zone around Canada’s Great Slave Lake, Marrone wowed viewers with her joyous highs and crushing lows, and her ability to discuss those feelings on camera.

From Outside Online

There have always been bad things happening, and across the subarctic, some of the darkest countries in the world have December practices that date back far before Jesus’s birth.

From Outside Online

Similar to Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines, AstraZeneca’s requires two doses, however it is not an mRNA vaccine and doesn’t require subarctic storage temperatures.

From Popular-Science

His ancestors were bred for bolting foxes and wildcats among the rocky headlands of the subarctic islands.

From Project Gutenberg

Trees are absent, except along the inland border, where the tundra merges with the subarctic forest.

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For convenience we may designate this vast and but little known northern region as the Subarctic Forest plains.

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This same broad conclusion is sustained also at the north, where the prairie dovetails, as it were, with the subarctic forest.

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The smaller deer of various species inhabited the entire continent from the subarctic forest to Panama.

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