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SUBTERMINAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does subterminal mean?
• SUBTERMINAL (adjective)
The adjective SUBTERMINAL has 1 sense:
1. near but not precisely at an end
Familiarity information: SUBTERMINAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Near but not precisely at an end
Context example:
a subterminal band of color on the tail feathers
Similar:
intermediate (lying between two extremes in time or space or state)
Context examples
This subspecies is motile by multiple subterminal flagella, esterase lipase positive, reduces nitrate and fermentation of glycogen in the presence of serum produces pyruvate.
(Mobiluncus curtisii subsp holmesii, NCI Thesaurus)
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