sub rector (subrektor)

A rector's deputy or substitute. subregion (sub'rējon), n. A subdivision of a region; in zoögeog., a faunal area subordinate in extent to one called a region. - Guinean, Mediterranean, Mongolian, Mozambican subregion. See the adjectives. - New Zealand subregion, a division of the great Australian region, probably more isolated, both in time and in space, than any other faunal area of the globe. It consists of the three large islands of New Zealand, with numerous satellites. The fauna is remarkable in the almost entire absence of indigenous mammals, and the presence of many peculiar avian and reptilian types, some of which, like the moas, are recently extinct, and others of which seem doomed to extinction in the near future. - Papuan, Polynesian, Siberian, etc., subregion. See the adjectives. subregional (sub-re'jon-al), a. [