sub-basaladj.n.

1823 Jrnl. Acad. Nat, Sci. Philadelphia 3 198 Two rufous spots, of which one is subbasal, transverse.., and extending more than half across the elytron.

1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 vi. 276 Nostrils sub-basal.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 172 Cornus sanguinea..lateral nerves subbasal.

1910 R. Warren Mammals Colorado 19 Antlers with a large sub-basal snag; beam forwardly directed, the anterior branch the largest and longest.

1968 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 612 Gyroptera robertsi... Hind wing..cilia yellowish white, with a poorly defined dark brown sub-basal line.

2003 N. Becker et al. Mosquitoes & their Control x. 207/2 The claws of the fore and mid tarsi have a sub-basal tooth, and the claws of the hind tarsi are simple.

1856 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 3 351 Its base [sc. of a crinoid] consisted of five pieces, which, branching into ten sub-basals, again subdivided into twenty tapering fingers.

1880 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1879 iii. 286 They [sc. underbasals or proximal plates] are so imperfectly developed that Meek did not think proper to recognize them by the usual term, but called them sub-basals.

1901 Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 48 640 Primaries pale fuscous-grey traversed by four wavy blackish lines and a dusky central shade; the sub-basal is not distinct.

1966 Jrnl. Paleontol. 40 101/2 Specimens..examined by the writer..clearly show that the ‘sub-basals’ are merely a secondary deposit of calcite.

1989 Amer. Zoologist 29 238/2 The radius and ulna fuse, leaving no trace that the subbasals were originally paired.