Sub-Boreal

A form of subboreal — A climactic period that is a subdivision of the Holocene epoch running from approximately 3710 to 450 BCE.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Subboreal.
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    Kremenetsky (1991) who gathered his pollen data in southern Ukraine and Moldova, argues that in the early Sub-Boreal (4200-2700 BP) the climate in that area became cool and dry; pollen spectra showed the disappearance of Ulmaceae from the forests in the Moldavian highlands; warm-loving trees such as oak and lime withdrew from the forests of Volhynia.

    2014, Pavel Dolukhanov, The Early Slavs, →ISBN

Origin

From sub- + Boreal.

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APA

Sub-Boreal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sub-Boreal

MLA

“Sub-Boreal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sub-Boreal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sub-Boreal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sub-Boreal.

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