subcomb
A subcurve of a comb that includes the handle.
Noun
- A subcurve of a comb that includes the handle.
- A corresponding series of descending subcombs lay in place, each successive subcomb's conduits, or teeth, having diameters decreased by half. - 2007, Ron Sanders, Microcosmia, →ISBN, page 132:
- With these choices, a subcomb with at least one tooth can be smoothed. - 2013, Olivier Debarre, Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Geometry, →ISBN, page 106:
Forms
Verb
- Alternative form of succumb.
- I've got to subcomb to death's order, or I would not speak of it. - 1880, Emma May Buckingham, Parson Thorne's Trial: A Novel, page 235:
- Doubtless others could not weather the economic barriers, and soon subcombed to oblivion. - 1925, John Daniel Bright, The Reform Press of the Forties, page 8:
- An indication of its existence could be the fact that shortly after a strong infection of the leaves the entire plant subcombs in a rather rapid way by general wilting. - 1984, Tissue Culture of Plantain for Improving...