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 subterminal or often pseudolateral, their scales gradually narrowed into a spine.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
Mouth terminal or subterminal; body frequently drawn out into long process; mouth may have specialized framework Family Trachelinidæ c.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins
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 J. Knox Jones
Moreover the conelet is usually, perhaps always, subterminal in P. occidentalis.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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