subarctic

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His ancestors were bred for bolting foxes and wildcats among the rocky headlands of the subarctic islands.
Greyfriars Bobby|Eleanor Atkinson
Trees are absent, except along the inland border, where the tundra merges with the subarctic forest.
North America|Israel C. Russell
For convenience we may designate this vast and but little known northern region as the Subarctic Forest plains.
North America|Israel C. Russell

This same broad conclusion is sustained also at the north, where the prairie dovetails, as it were, with the subarctic forest.
North America|Israel C. Russell
The smaller deer of various species inhabited the entire continent from the subarctic forest to Panama.
North America|Israel C. Russell

British Dictionary definitions for subarctic

subarctic

/ (sʌbˈɑːktɪk) /

adjective

of or relating to latitudes immediately south of the Arctic Circle

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Scientific definitions for subarctic

subarctic

[ sŭb′-ärk′tĭk, -är′tĭk ]

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.