a. Nat. Hist. [SUB- 1 b, c, 11.] Beneath or near the apex; nearly apical.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 445. The subapical calicles becoming very small.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 78. Carpels hairy with an eglandular subapical pit.
1913. Oxf. Univ. Gaz., 4 June, 955 The orange subapical bar to the fore wing.