subterminal
Britishadjective
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These sharks are neither monsters nor jokes, though at least one contestant finds the banded houndshark “freaking adorable … their little cat eyes, their subterminal mouth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
Conelets large, subterminal, or on young trees often pseudolateral.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
The only parts of the forelimb known to be missing are two subterminal and two terminal phalanges, probably of the first and third digits, and the proximal end of the second metacarpal.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
Leaves 5, each with a single fibro-vascular bundle; sheath loose, deciduous; cones subterminal, their scales but slightly thickened at the end and without prickle or point; bark smooth except on old trunks.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
On uninodal branchlets they form an apical group consisting of a terminal bud with a whorl of subterminal buds about its base.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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