a. [Cf. Sp. subpolar.]

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  1.  [SUB- 12 b.] Adjacent to the poles or polar sea.

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xlix. IV. 485. Beginning at 84° N. L. he [sc. Latreille] has seven Arctic ones, which he names polar, subpolar, superior, intermediate, supratropical, tropical, and equatorial.

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  2.  [SUB- 1 a.] Beneath the pole of the heavens.

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1876.  C. H. Davis, Polaris Exp., iv. 96. The latitude of the southern entrance of Repulse Harbor, determined … by a meridian subpolar observation.

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1883.  Proctor, Gt. Pyramid, iii. 154. The subpolar meridional passage of [Alpha Draconis].

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