Definitions for subarctic

subarctic sub·arc·tic

Spelling: [suhb-ahrk-tik, -ahr-tik]
IPA: /sʌbˈɑrk tɪk, -ˈɑr tɪk/

Subarctic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 431 anagrams from letters in subarctic (abccirstu).

Definitions for subarctic

adjective

  1. of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.

Origin of subarctic

First recorded in 1850-55; sub- + arctic

Examples for subarctic

Would it extend it, after assuming its proper glacial slope, below 60°, a point falling within the present subarctic zone?

The codfish (Gadus callarias) is a creature of little beauty but of great usefulness, swarming in all arctic and subarctic seas.

In the northern, subarctic regions, it opposes a barrier against travel.

This same broad conclusion is sustained also at the north, where the prairie dovetails, as it were, with the subarctic forest.

Trees are absent, except along the inland border, where the tundra merges with the subarctic forest.

subarctic, sub-ark′tik, adj. of a region or climate next to the arctic.

Killer whales may remain in arctic or subarctic waters until driven out by new forming ice in October and November.

His ancestors were bred for bolting foxes and wildcats among the rocky headlands of the subarctic islands.

For convenience we may designate this vast and but little known northern region as the subarctic Forest plains.

The smaller deer of various species inhabited the entire continent from the subarctic forest to Panama.

Word Value for subarctic
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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