subregion

American  

[suhb-ree-juhn] / ˈsʌbˌri dʒən /

noun

1. a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.

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subregion British  

/ sʌbˈriːdʒən /

noun

1. a subdivision of a region, esp a zoogeographical or ecological region

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Other Word Forms

• subregional adjective

Etymology

Origin of subregion

First recorded in 1860–65; sub- + region

Example Sentences

He produces taut, minerally whites with grapes sourced from all over the storied Burgundy subregion of Chablis, from entry-level bottles like this Terroir de Chablis to his grand-cru offerings from vineyards like Bougros and Les Clos.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Our intention was to verify whether a subregion sensitive specifically to primate vocalizations existed," explains Leonardo Ceravolo, research associate at UNIGE's Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and first author of the study.

From Science Daily

Five Point set up LandBridge in 2021 and it now manages roughly 277,000 acres across the Delaware Basin, a shale-oil rich subregion of the broader Permian Basin, which straddles parts of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal

"For years, Nigeria has supported peace and security of several countries not only in the West African subregion but also on the African continent," the regional bloc said in a statement shared on Thursday.

From BBC

The electrical signals, lasting on average 120 milliseconds, were then found to move down and across the folds of the precentral gyrus to a neighboring auditory cortical subregion, called the superior temporal gyrus.

From Science Daily