subterminal

/ sʌbˈtɜːmɪnəl /

adjective

1. almost at an end

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

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 Project Gutenberg

"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 Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg