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
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)
The zoœcia are tubular and have a terminal or subterminal orifice, which is angulate or subangulate as seen from above.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson
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
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)
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