sub-Atlantic

adjective

"+

1

: located beneath the Atlantic Ocean

a sub-Atlantic cable

2

: of, relating to, or being a postglacial climatic period believed to have begun in northwestern Europe about 850–500 b.c. and to be continuing in existence at the present time

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary sub- + Atlantic ocean

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