a. (sb.) [SUB- 12 b.] Nearly arctic; somewhat south of the arctic circle or regions; belonging to such a region. Also sb. pl., subarctic regions.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm. (1858), 460. When sub-arctic molluscs lived in her [sc. Scotland’s] sounds and bays.
1875. Croll, Clim. & Time, xv. 236. As the ice began to accumulate during the cold periods in subarctic and temperate regions.
1892. Stevenson, Across the Plains, vi. 204. It was still broad day in our subarctic latitude [in Caithness].
1898. J. W. Tyrrell (title), Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada.
