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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Located below or near an apex.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated below the apex.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.
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- adjective Below an
apex
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Examples
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_ Black, with gilded tomentum, which forms two bands on the thorax, and one on each side of the pectus; abdomen with three gilded tomentose bands, the third subapical, first segment ferruginous beneath; legs tawny, femora at the base and coxæ black; wings blackish-brown, dark cinereous hindward; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head with gilded pubescence, cinereous behind and beneath; antennæ tawny, second joint above towards the tip and third joint piceous; thorax slightly covered with gilded tomentum; pectus with cinereous tomentum; abdomen with gilded tomentum towards the tip; legs tawny, femora mostly black, tibiæ with black stripes; wings cinereous, dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Black, with cinereous tomentum; antennæ rather stout; legs piceous; wings greyish; veins black; radial and cubital veins thick; radial vein extending to the fork of the subapical.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The cytoskeleton in turn stabilises the protein complex that constitutes the adherens junctions, which being basal to the subapical Crb-complex contribute to the tautness of epithelia.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michaela Norum et al. 2010
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Hoekstra D, Tyteca D, van ISC (2004) The subapical compartment: a traffic center in membrane polarity development.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michaela Norum et al. 2010
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Histologically, the two obvious contact features are the subapical adherens junctions (aj) and the lateral septate junctions (sj).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michaela Norum et al. 2010
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