submargin
nounEtymology From sub- + margin.
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Biology, Entomology, Natural sciences An area parallel to a margin but slightly further in.
- 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:
- Glumes slightly unequal […] ; florets slightly shorter than the longer glume; lemma ciliate on the margins or submargins in the upper part2005, Katy Mallett, Flora of Australia (volume 44, part 2, page 137)