Submargin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

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"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."

Etymology

From sub- + margin.

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