subgranularly

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adverb

In a somewhat or finely granular manner.

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Meanings

adverbsubgranularly (comparative more subgranularly, superlative most subgranularly)

comparative more subgranularly · superlative most subgranularly

  1. In a somewhat or finely granular manner.

    The base of the shell is subgranularly striate.

    2024 April 22, Wikipedia contributors, “Conus brunneus”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation
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    Elytra a little longer than wide conjointly, finely striate, intervals with a row of moderately coarse elongate punctures each bearing a semierect hair, surface subgranularly alutaceous.

    1877, Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume VI, page 286

    Pileus 1.1-3.5 cm long, 0.5-2.3 cm broad, 3-4 mm thick near the base, broadly attached, narrowly eaves-like to flaballate, surface white, zonate, glaborous, subgranularly tuberculose near the base.

    1993, Zhishu Bi, The Macrofungus Flora of China's Guangdong Province, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 224

Origin

From subgranular + -ly.

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