subnasaladj.

1831 J. E. Gray Zool. Misc. 8 Almorah Botia. Botia Almorhæ. Subnasal spines double; brownish with irregular pale spots.

1844 tr. J. Cruveilhier Anat. Human Body 325 In the upper lip this surface presents along the median line a vertical furrow, the sub-nasal groove [Fr. sillon sous-nasal].

1853 Bentley's Misc. 34 549 He had a moustache, but it was far from one of those sub-nasal pig-tails, on which soup is suspended like dew on a shrub.

1903 E. S. Talbot Irregularities Teeth (ed. 5) v. 47 Sub-nasal gnathism is determined by the angle formed by a line drawn from the nasal spine (sub-nasal point) to the anterior extremity of the alveolo-condylean plane.

1946 Amer. Naturalist 80 648 It was highly peculiar in having very forwardly placed and deepened malar bones, a concave facial profile and widening of the subnasal region.

2002 A. Phillips Prague iv. viii. 341 A man with a substantial subnasal mole.

1849 Edinb. Monthly Mag. July 96 The German was as bad as the French: it was a Swiss, not a German German, abounding in patois phrases and provincialisms—in short, a most hybrid affair, to say nothing of its being as much over-guttural as the last was sub-nasal.

1871 A. L. B. Blackwell Island Neighbors xx. 92/1 ‘Yes, sir,’ said one elderly gentleman to another, in a sonorous, sub-nasal tone.

1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets i. ii. 39 Cool voice, with an edge of sub-nasal gentility.

1999 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 13 Mar. 19 ‘At home, my body is a temple, but, when I'm on the road, it becomes an amusement park,’ he jokes,..laughing his whirring, sub-nasal laugh.