Crossword clues for subarctic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subarctic \Sub*arc"tic\, a. Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.
Wiktionary
a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the subarctic. n. Region immediately outside of the Arctic Circle or regions similar to these in climate or conditions of life.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle
Wikipedia
The subarctic is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic and covering much of Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the north of Scandinavia, Siberia, and the Shetland Islands. Generally, subarctic regions fall between 50°N and 70°N latitude, depending on local climates.
Usage examples of "subarctic".
His ancestors were bred for bolting foxes and wildcats among the rocky headlands of the subarctic islands.
The city was swirled on the outer reaches with inhospitable subarctic terrain and constant winds and snows.
A drunk had only to raise his head above ground level, and be exposed to the subarctic winds, to become stone sober.
Without it the Mammoth Hunters could not have lived on the subarctic steppes, except in a few isolated locations, for all the abundance of game.
That day, the bleak scenery of the subarctic ocean reinforced my mood.
A glance showed that in the subarctic night air the water which had been sucking at the port bow runner was already refreezing, the ice sheet re-forming around the duralloy.
Those in the northern zones, from the temperate to the subarctic, will die of heatstroke long before they can reach the southern continent, despite anything short of massive intervention on the part of Commonwealth authorities.
Black Sails had crossed in force, bringing not just their flying-boats, but their flocks and families as well -- a whole nomad horde out of nowhere was now jammed onto the subarctic island, living heaven knew how.
We crossed the sea, holding on in the same direction, and a little before sunset moored our vessel at the wharf of a small harbour, along the sides of which was built the largest town of this subarctic landbelt, a village of some fifty houses named Askinta.
Its gravity is much higher than the Kaldorni homeworld, while the climate is uncomfortably hot and humid for the people accustomed to the subarctic climate of Beystohn.
Her metabolism seemed to mind warmth no more than it had subarctic cold.
Winter cold increases westward and northward, until the Upper Valley ranges from cool-temperate semiarid to subarctic north of Lake Ochrid.
Serpentine continent, shading to cold-temperate and subarctic conditions on the northern shores.
Unless one has been able to follow continuously these developments in conjunction with the progress of academic archeology, the prehistory of the western North American arctic and subarctic is incomprehensible.
The Nenana complex represents human adaptation in the subarctic of eastern Beringia, and the Llano complex represents a different but contemporaneous adaptation in temperate regions of interior North America.