subapical

comparative more subapical · superlative most subapical

1. 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

2. human sciencesPronounced with the underside of the tongue.