subangledadj.
/ˈsʌbaŋɡld/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌæŋɡ(ə)ld/ Botany and Zoology.
= subangular adj.
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subangular1777
subangulated1778
subangled1783
subangulate1809
1783 tr. C. Linnaeus Syst. Veg. (1785) I. 380 Leaves wedge-form-egg'd saw'd subangled, villous underneath, branches thorny.
1855 L. Reeve Conchologia Iconica VIII. Pl. I (caption) Shell nearly orbicular..; valves convex, rayed with two-and-twenty subangled slightly squamate ribs.
1875 J. D. Hooker Flora Brit. India I. 596 Branches cylindric or subangled, setose, ultimately glabrous.
1907 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 32 504 Adult whorls four, rapidly increasing, the last flattened above, subangled at the periphery, rounded on the base.
1992 Novon 2 166/1 Branchlets subterete to irregularly subangled, glabrous, without interpetiolar ridges or glandular fields.
Compounds
subangled wave n. a pale grey European geometrid moth, Scopula nigropunctata, having an angled edge to the hindwings.
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1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 350 Phalæna. (Undatæ)... strigilata. P. (The subangled Wave) alis albidis, posticis subangulatis.
1909 R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 127 The Sub-angled Wave (Acidalia (Leptomeris) strigilaria). This species is greyish-white, sometimes brownish-tinged.
2009 P. Waring & M. Townsend Field Guide Moths Great Brit. & Ireland (ed. 2) 208 Similar species. Sub-angled Wave is similar in shape, but substantially larger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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