subantarctic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to a region in the Southern Hemisphere immediately north of Antarctica and covering the many islands of the southern parts of the Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, which are north of the Antarctic Convergence.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English Antarctic English subantarctic From sub- + Antarctic.