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subˈmontane, a.
1. [sub- 1 a.] Passing under, or existing below, mountains.
1819Blackw. Mag. VI. 150 He sails along..till the shallop is driven into a cavern in the ‘etherial cliffs of Caucasus’. It is scarcely to be expected that his submontane voyage should be very distinctly described. 1859W. M. Thomson Land & Bk. ii. xvii. I. 377 The dark stairway..was a subterranean, or, rather, submontane path to the great fountain of Banias.
2. [sub- 12 a.] Lying about the foot of mountains; belonging to the foot-hills of a range; also, belonging to the lower slopes of mountains.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 287 Their principal station is on the sub-montane region between 1200 and 3600 feet of elevation. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. VII. 161 The fertile submontane plains of Sialkot. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 610/2 The submontane district around the town of Tokay. 1913Blackw. Mag. Apr. 448/1 Hardy sub-montane savages armed with..deadly war-tools.
So † submonˈtaneous a. = 1 above.
1682Wheler Journ. Greece vi. 465 These Subterraneous, or rather Submontaneous Passages of the Water, may..be reckoned amongst the greatest Wonders of the World. |