submargin

An area parallel to a margin but slightly further in.

Noun

  1. An area parallel to a margin but slightly further in.
    • The ears are brownish, more or less rusty, the extreme edge whitish, particularly on the posterior border, the apical third externally with a submargin of black, expanding towards the tip into a broad blackish subapical...
    • Glumes slightly unequal […] ; florets slightly shorter than the longer glume; lemma ciliate on the margins or submargins in the upper part - 2005, Katy Mallett, Flora of Australia (volume 44, part 2, page 137)

Origin

From sub- + margin.

Forms

submargins