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subˈlinear, a.
1. [sub- 20 c.] Nearly linear (Bot. and Zool.: see linear a. 4 b).
1777S. Robson Brit. Flora 89 Leaves sublinear. 1852Dana Crust. ii. 887 The hand of the first pair of legs is sublinear. 1888Amer. Nat. XXII. 1017 Suture sublinear above and slightly channeled below.
2. [sub- 1 a.] Placed below a written or printed line.
Cf. sublineation s.v. sub- 2.
1868Visct. Strangford Sel. (1869) II. 254 The strange hooks or sub-linear commas by which the Poles denote certain nasal sounds in their language. 1909Bible in World Aug. 239/2 There are two chief systems of punctuation known, sublinear and superlinear. Ibid., All ordinary Hebrew manuscripts are vocalised or ‘pointed’ with the sublinear vowel signs. |