submargin

submargin

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ margin

Noun

submargin (plural submargins)

1. (entomology) An area parallel to a margin but slightly further in.
   • 1894, Joel Asaph Allen, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (page 108)

     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.

   • 2005, Katy Mallett, Flora of Australia (volume 44, part 2, page 137)

     Glumes slightly unequal […] ; florets slightly shorter than the longer glume; lemma ciliate on the margins or submargins in the upper part