Definition of Subalar

1. somewhat alar [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subalar

subaerial
subaerially
subaffluent
subagencies
subagency
subagent
subagents
subah
subahdar
subahdars
subahs
subaid
subaided
subaiding
subaids
subalar (current term)
subalgebra
subalgebraic
subalgebras
subalignments
suballocation
suballocations
subalmoner
subalmoners
subalpine
subalpine fir
subalpine larch
subaltern
subalternal
subalternant

Literary usage of Subalar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. ... California Gall-making Cynipidae with Descriptions of New Species by Mary Isabel McCracken, Dorothy Barnes Egbert (1922)
"Tegulae, subalar areas, pronotum and mesonotum, laterally, reddish-brown. ... orbital margin, ocelli, antennae (except extreme tips), tegulae, subalar area, ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"The wild peacock has all the small coverts of the upper part of the wings, as well as the subalar plumes, of a deep and brilliant green; they are bordered ..."

3. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: with notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1889)
"The native-prepared skins seen in European museums give no idea of the glorious beauty of the living bird. The subalar plumes, whose prolonged and wire-like ..."

4. Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae by Samuel Wendell Williston (1886)
"... with only four spota besides the humeral and subalar onea ; front of female yellow across the middle ; scutellum with a yellow, disconnected spot on ..."

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