Definition of submontane in English:



  • 1Passing under or through mountains.

    1. 1.1 Situated in the foothills or lower slopes of a mountain range.
      • ‘The pollination biology of Aechmea pectinata was studied in a submontane rainforest in south-eastern Brazil.’
      • ‘In the Australian physiognomic classification system, the CFF is considered a complex notophyll vine forest type that is more generally defined as a submontane tropical rain forest.’