subarctic
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- adjective
- /ˌsʌbˈɑrk.tɪk/
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subárctico
- subarctic shamanism
Examples
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Large land expanses in the subarctic region are perennially covered with snow, although the area covered can vary greatly with the season.
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The Cook Inlet stock represents a geographically isolated, subarctic population of this species.
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Hawk owls live and nest in the taiga, the subarctic band of forests that circle the northern reaches of the globe from Alaska to eastern Canada and from Scandinavia to Siberia.
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Wood Buffalo National Park, the second biggest in the world, is a subarctic wilderness of huge rivers, bogs, forests, lakes, and meadows that is home to a free-roaming herd of some forty-five hundred bison.
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Many animals have adapted to the harsh conditions of the subarctic climate, where winters are long and cold.
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The subarctic regions of Canada experience brief summers with limited plant growth due to the cold temperatures.
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Traveling through the subarctic, we encountered icy winds and beautiful landscapes shaped by the extreme weather.
Synonyms
Near the North or South Pole with very cold weather
Antonyms
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A region just north or south of the tropics with hot, humid summers and mild winters
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
subarctic = Arctic (transparent) = sub + arctic
Meaning is directly formed by the productive English prefix 'sub-' (meaning 'below/near') plus 'Arctic', yielding 'region just south of the Arctic'.
Etymology
The word subarctic is made of sub- meaning 'below', like in subway or submarine, and Arctic, which means 'the far north'. So subarctic literally means 'below the Arctic', which is why it describes the cold lands just south of the Arctic Circle.