submontane
Americanadjective
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under or beneath a mountain or mountains.
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at or near the foot of mountains.
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pertaining or belonging to the lower slopes of mountains.
adjective
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situated on or characteristic of the lower slopes of a mountain
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beneath a mountain or mountain range
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Origin of submontane
Example Sentences
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The submontane tract is an undulating country with a red soil, much broken up into ravines along the foot of the hills.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
Special features of Plain Zones.—The submontane zone has the most equable and the pleasantest climate in the plains.
From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir
The other districts are Hoshyárpur in the submontane zone, Jalandhar and Ludhiána, which belong to the Central Plains, and Ferozepore, which is part of the South-Eastern Panjáb.
From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir
Changed "sub-montane" to "submontane" on page 413: "from submontane localities."
From Birds from North Borneo University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966 by Thompson, Max C.
Still the flora outside the Hills and the submontane tract is predominantly of the desert type, being xerophilous or drought-resisting.
From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir
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