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1. [SUB- 11, 20 d.] Near the middle or median line; almost medial.
1849. Dana, Geol., App. I. (1850), 726. Beaks submedial.
2. Geol. [SUB- 1 a.] Lying below the middle group of rocks.
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.
1855. J. Phillips, Man. Geol., 157. Scar limestone (submedial group).
So Submedian a., near or behind a median part.
1851. Mantell, Petrifactions, iii. § 5. 293. The flattened angular spaces, and the sub-median trochanter.
1852. Dana, Crust., II. 843. One tooth anterior, one submedian, and one posterior.
1861. H. Hagen, Synopsis Neuroptera N. Amer., 343. Submedian nerve, the longitudinal large nerve just behind the median.