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On Saturday’s #Okeanos dive, we saw several sublinear sets of holes in the seafloor.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2022

Of the systems of punctuation which are known to us, the more familiar is the Tiberian, or sublinear, which is found in all printed editions of the Hebrew Bible.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

P. convexo-plane, obtuse, edge slightly striate; g. sublinear, connected into a collar; s. filiform, base orbicular, convex, glabrous. var. clavicularis.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George