SUB-SAHARAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sub-Saharan mean? 

• SUB-SAHARAN (adjective)
  The adjective SUB-SAHARAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or situated in the region south of the Sahara Desert

  Familiarity information: SUB-SAHARAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUB-SAHARAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or situated in the region south of the Sahara Desert

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Sahara (the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa)

 Context examples 

Until recently, it was thought that only people outside sub-Saharan Africa had Neanderthal DNA.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) study on dietary risks finds that in southern sub-Saharan Africa, diets low in fruits were the number one reason for diet-related deaths.

(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The greater honeyguide is widely found in sub-Saharan Africa, where its unassuming brown plumage belies its complex interactions with other species.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When complete, the atlas will consist of photos of physical traits of people with many different inherited diseases around the world, including Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, South America and sub-Saharan Africa.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

In addition to providing new data about species evolution in sub-Saharan Africa, the results contribute to fleshing out the portrait of titanosaurians, which lived in habitats across the globe through the end of the Cretaceous period.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

For example, one such group, the turacos (‘banana eaters’) are fruit-eating birds which are only found in the forests and savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, but fossils of an early turaco relative have been found in modern-day Wyoming, in the northern United States.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.

(African, NCI Thesaurus)

A joint report from the United Nations and the European Union found that millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from acute food shortage each year.

(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)