subequatorial

[ suhb-ee-kwuh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-, -ek-wuh- ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.

subequatorial

/ sʌbˌɛkwəˈtɔːrɪəl /

adjective

1. situated in or characteristic of regions immediately north or south of equatorial regions

Word History and Origins

Origin of subequatorial¹

sub- + equatorial

Example Sentences

He has the same fawn coloring and sculptural nose, but his eyes are the clouded turquoise of certain Alpine lakes, which gives him an oddly blind look in the blazing subequatorial sun.

From The New Yorker

This onset too probably involved replacement of old Greeks and Germans by new Greeks and Germans, just as old gave way to new in the Philippines, Indonesia, and subequatorial Africa.

From Literature

Of these, writing was traditionally the one most restricted geographically: until the expansions of Islam and of colonial Europeans, it was absent from Australia, Pacific islands, subequatorial Africa, and the whole New World except for a small part of Mesoamerica.

From Literature

They also included Tonga’s maritime proto-empire, the Hawaiian state emerging in the late 18th century, all of the states and chiefdoms of subequatorial Africa and sub-Saharan West Africa before the arrival of Islam, and the largest native North American societies, those of the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries.

From Literature

Essentially the same processes accounted for the replacement of Aboriginal Australian languages by English, and of subequatorial Africa’s original Pygmy and Khoisan languages by Bantu languages.

From Literature