subterminal

British  

/ sʌbˈtɜːmɪnəl /

adjective

1. almost at an end

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Example Sentences

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

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 Gray, Asa

The contractile vacuole is subterminal and dorsal; it is questionable whether there are canals leading to it.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

Conelets subterminal or often pseudolateral, their scales gradually narrowed into a spine.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

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 Shaw, George Russell