Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated below the collateral fissure of the brain.
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Examples
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Glumes awned or not, first and second glumes are opposite or subcollateral, persistent or separately deciduous; first glume minute or absent VIII.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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_subcollateral_, as vw, and these again had others less, which one may call
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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11 The branchings of the main Stems joyn'd not together by any regular line, nor did one side of the one lie over the other side of the other, but the small _collateral_ and _subcollateral_ branches did lie at top of one another according to a certain order or method, which I always observ'd to be this.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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17 But there is a _Vegetable_ which does exceedingly imitate these branches, and that is, _Fearn_, where the main stem may be observ'd to shoot out branches, and the stems of each of these _lateral_ branches, to send forth _collateral_, and those _subcollateral_ and those
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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12 That side of a _collateral_ or _subcollateral_, &c. branch, lay over the side of the _approximate_ (as the feathers in the wing of a Bird) whose branchings proceeded parallel to the last biggest stem from which it sprung, and not to the biggest stem of all, unless that were a second stem backwards.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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