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subˈequal, a.
[ad. mod.L. subæquālis: see sub- 21 c and equal.]
1. Nat. Hist. Nearly equal.
1787tr. Linnæus' Fam. Plants 195 Florets all fertile. Proper one with petals five, heart-inflected, subequal. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 199 Eyes subequal. 1880Huxley in Times 25 Dec. 4/1 The earliest known equine animal possesses four complete sub-equal digits on the fore foot. 1897Günther in Mary Kingsley's W. Africa 704 Teeth small, subequal, with brown pointed tips.
2. Related as several numbers of which no one is as large as the sum of the rest.
In mod. Dicts.
Hence subˈequally adv.; subeˈquality, the condition of being subequal.
1870Hooker Stud. Flora 200 Fruit glabrous, subequally ribbed all round. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. 172 In the number of these bones [metacarpals] and their sub-equality of development man agrees with many Vertebrates above Fishes. |