Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as subtropical.
  • noun A subtropical region.

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  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics

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Examples

  • The second is Hill-grown rice that can be grown in almost any tropical or subtropic terrain.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Sara 2007

  • The second is Hill-grown rice that can be grown in almost any tropical or subtropic terrain.

    R is for... Sara 2007

  • The human colony on the planet of Sao Paulo was only a little more than ten years old, and the majority of its towns were situated in the subtropic zone of the snaky eastern continent that stretched almost from pole to pole.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • We would be passing from fall weather in Montreal into subtropic weather in the Pacific.

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

  • Retracing Ertl's survey, the group used dynamite to clear a six-mile path through the threatened subtropic forest of the eastern Andes.

    Atlantis in Bolivia? 2002

  • A subtropic, constantly wet climate prevails with annual precipitation between

    1. Selection of animals 1991

  • They are favored, too, by a kindly climate, subtropic in its mildness.

    Heart of the Sunset Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • It is simply one of the hundred unsolvable mysteries and puzzles of the subtropic region.

    Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • A canal crosses this little isthmus and once it interlocked the east and west, the arctic plains with the subtropic cane fields; but it has given over its work to the railroads, having served, however, I have no doubt, to water the roots of the beautiful town that bears the generic name of all those places where burdens were borne between waters.

    The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901

  • It can be caused by any one of four separate but related viruses carried by infected mosquitoes, most commonly the mosquito Aedes aegypti, found in tropic and subtropic areas.

    WarIsACrime.org 2010

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