Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, situated near the side of the body.
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- adjective botany That
develops from alateral shoot or branch
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Examples
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This central trunk sends off, low down on each side, a delicate branch, which may be called the sublateral branch.
Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845
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The leaf was then dissected, and the trunk, as well as the two sublateral branches, were found divided.
Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845
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Now there are tentacles on the disc, for instance near the extremities of the sublateral bundles (fig. 11), which are supplied with vessels that do not come into contact with the branches that enter the surrounding tentacles, except by a very long and extremely circuitous course.
Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845
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