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

"Top and sides of head and back grayish brown; quills dusky, tipped with white; tail with subterminal band of dusky; rest of tail, under parts, forehead, and eyelids white."

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

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 Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)

All the cover hairs are gray basally; some have a buffy band terminally and others have a buffy subterminal band with a terminal black tip.

From Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions by Jones, J. Knox

Conelets large, subterminal, or on young trees often pseudolateral.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell