A subterminal band of color on the tail feathers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a terminal feature of a vista. ,terminal payments. ,a terminal disease. ,The undercapitalized project is a terminal problem. From Dictionary.com.
The flowers are subterminal inflorescences with numerous long, hairlike purple or red stamens, which give the plants a handsome, showy appearance. From Wordnik.com. [3 The Plant] Reference
Conelets subterminal, or lateral and subterminal, mucronate. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Conelets large, subterminal, or on young trees often pseudolateral. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Moreover the conelet is usually, perhaps always, subterminal in P. occidentalis. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Fig. 263, Multinodal branchlet bearing lateral and subterminal conelets and a ripe cone. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Conelets subterminal or often pseudolateral, their scales gradually narrowed into a spine. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
The contractile vacuole is subterminal and dorsal; it is questionable whether there are canals leading to it. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference
Ovary superior, 2-celled and each cell 2-ovuled and style subterminal, or ovary 4-parted and each lobe 1-ovuled and style gynobasic (from bases of ovary lobes) with. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
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). From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
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). From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
In Hawai'i, when the rift zones get pinched off as the volcanic pile gets 'squeezed' by the next volcanoes in the chain, the eruptions move to either summit, subterminal or circumferential locations (recent example is Mauna Kea). From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Conelet, lateral, 7 pseudolateral, 7 subterminal, 7. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Flowers, lateral, 7 pistillate, 7 staminate, 7 subterminal, 7. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
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