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

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

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Moreover the conelet is usually, perhaps always, subterminal in P. occidentalis.

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)

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