subterminal

IPA: sˈʌbtˈɝmʌnʌɫ

adjective

  • Positioned near an end
  • Less than terminal
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Examples of "subterminal" in Sentences

  • The mouth is subterminal and strongly oblique.
  • The mouth is underneath the head subterminal .
  • The mouth is small and in a subterminal position.
  • The subterminal band of the tail is less obvious.
  • The tail is barred with a darker subterminal band.
  • Head flattened, mouth subterminal, jaws protrusible.
  • The bill is yellow with orange red subterminal spot.
  • The female gametocyte often has a subterminal nucleus.
  • Their mouth is terminal or subterminal, and they are marine.
  • Conelets subterminal, or lateral and subterminal, mucronate.
  • The eyes are relatively large, and the mouth oblique and subterminal.
  • The contractile vacuole is terminal or subterminal and near the anal opening.
  • Fig. 263, Multinodal branchlet bearing lateral and subterminal conelets and a ripe cone.
  • Conelets subterminal or often pseudolateral, their scales gradually narrowed into a spine.
  • The contractile vacuole is subterminal and dorsal; it is questionable whether there are canals leading to it.
  • Mouth terminal or subterminal; Family _Trachelinidæ_ body frequently drawn out into long process; mouth may have specialized framework.
  • The flowers are subterminal inflorescences with numerous long, hairlike purple or red stamens, which give the plants a handsome, showy appearance.
  • Like the pistillate flower it may be subterminal or lateral, but a subterminal pistillate flower may become a pseudolateral conelet by reason of a summer-growth (fig. 40-a).
  • On uninodal shoots they are necessarily subterminal (fig. 34), the lateral pistillate flower being possible only on multinodal shoots (fig. 35) where it is often associated with the subterminal flower (fig. 33).
  • The flowers in Pinus are monoecious, the pistillate in the position of a long shoot, taking the place of a subterminal or lateral bud, the staminate in the position of a dwarf-shoot, taking the place of a leaf-fascicle but confined to the basal part of the internode.

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