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
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 George Russell Shaw
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 Nelson Annandale
Conelets large, subterminal, or on young trees often pseudolateral.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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
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