n. Region immediately outside of the Arctic Circle or regions similar to these in climate or conditions of life.
adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the subarctic.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Nearly arctic; existing or occurring a little south of the arctic circle: as, a subarctic region or fauna; subarctic animals or plants; a subarctic climate.
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adj. of or relating to latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle
Word Usage
"I was supposed to be in subarctic America, and high up among the buttresses of the Rockies; yet there was that everlasting spread of flowers."