Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Located or occurring near an end.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nearly terminal; situated near but not at the end.

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  • adjective Positioned near an end
  • adjective Less than terminal

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective near but not precisely at an end

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Examples

  • The flowers are subterminal inflorescences with numerous long, hairlike purple or red stamens, which give the plants a handsome, showy appearance.

    3 The Plant 1983

  • Mouth terminal or subterminal; Family _Trachelinidæ_ body frequently drawn out into long process; mouth may have specialized framework.

    Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906

  • The contractile vacuole is subterminal and dorsal; it is questionable whether there are canals leading to it.

    Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906

  • The contractile vacuole is terminal or subterminal and near the anal opening.

    Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906

  • 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 Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • Conelets subterminal or often pseudolateral, their scales gradually narrowed into a spine.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • Conelets subterminal, or lateral and subterminal, mucronate.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • 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.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • 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).

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • Fig. 263, Multinodal branchlet bearing lateral and subterminal conelets and a ripe cone.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

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