sub-Himalayan

• a word derived from Himalayas.
  Himalayas

  plural noun

  the Himalayas, a mountain range extending about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8,848 meters).

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sub-Himalayan

Northeast of Rajasthan, the sub-Himalayan courts of the Punjab hills also witnessed shifts in artistic language before and after the arrival of the Mughals.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2016

From the full accounts of Condamine, Mutis, and Humboldt, a soil and climate like that of the north west sub-Himalayan range is admirably adapted to the planting and prospering of cinchona trees.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

They do not extend very far into the peninsula, being numerous only in the sub-Himalayan tracts as far south as Fyzabad.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar

The District of Gujrat comprises a narrow wedge of sub-Himalayan plain country, possessing few natural advantages.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Falconer, Dr., on naturalisation of plants in India, 65. —— on fossil crocodile, 313. —— on elephants and mastodons, 334. —— and Cautley on mammals of sub-Himalayan beds, 340.

From On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin

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