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Originally Posted by ApK
Why would you ask a biologist? That would be like asking a cosmologist about "inflation" when the word was used in the context of economics.
Just because the adjective subnivean is used to describe a climate or habitat in biology in no way means that it is incorrect to use it in other contexts.
ApK
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If you buried your ereader in the ground, would you say it was subterranean? If you dropped it in the pool, would it be a submarine ereader? I think not. In the same way, I wouldn't use subnivean to describe your ereader if you jammed it into the middle of a snowbank. I think those words are used to describe a thing's proper place, and not just its present location.