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 Shaw, George Russell
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 contractile vacuole is terminal or subterminal and near the anal opening.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
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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