subapical
adjEtymology From sub- + apical.
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Below an apex.
- The ears are brownish, more or less rusty, the extreme edge whitish, particularly on the posterior border, the apical third externally with a submargin of black, expanding towards the tip into a broad blackish subapical spot.1894, Joel Asaph Allen, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, page 108:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences Pronounced with the underside of the tongue.