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  1.  [SUB- 11, 20 d.] Near the middle or median line; almost medial.

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1849.  Dana, Geol., App. I. (1850), 726. Beaks submedial.

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  2.  Geol. [SUB- 1 a.] Lying below the middle group of rocks.

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1855.  Ogilvie, Suppl., Submedial,… a term synonymous with transition, and applied to the lower secondary rocks, which bear a close resemblance to some of the primary rocks.

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1855.  J. Phillips, Man. Geol., 157. Scar limestone (submedial group).

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  So Submedian a., near or behind a median part.

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1851.  Mantell, Petrifactions, iii. § 5. 293. The flattened angular spaces, and the sub-median trochanter.

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1852.  Dana, Crust., II. 843. One tooth anterior, one submedian, and one posterior.

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1861.  H. Hagen, Synopsis Neuroptera N. Amer., 343. Submedian nerve, the longitudinal large nerve just behind the median.

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