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Subsahara

Subsahara proper noun: sub-Saharan Africa.

Proper noun

Subsahara

  1. Sub-Saharan Africa.
    • letters […] seeking information on emigration to Africa, both north and subSahara.1982, Patricia Galloway, La Salle and His Legacy: Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley, page 82
    • […] Large-scale natural disaster (e.g., drought and famine in Subsahara or Cambodia) […]1986, Nancy Curry, The Feeling Child: Affective Development Reconsidered, page 116

Forms of Subsahara

alternative formsub-Sahara

Origin of Subsahara

From sub- + Sahara.

Questions about Subsahara

What does Subsahara mean?
Subsahara means sub-Saharan Africa.
What part of speech is Subsahara?
Subsahara is a proper noun.

Words near Subsahara in the dictionary

  1. subsacristan
  2. subsacristans
  3. subsacrists
  4. subsagittal
  5. subsagittate
  6. Subsahara
  7. subsaharan
  8. Subsaharan Africa
  9. subsaharans
  10. subsale
  11. subsales

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