a. [SUB- 20 c. Cf. F. subovale.] Somewhat or almost oval.

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1752.  J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 9. The Macrocercus, with a suboval depressed body.

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1777.  S. Robson, Brit. Flora, 167. Corollulæ of the radius suboval.

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1819.  Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., X. II. 564. Nostrils suboval and depressed.

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1858.  Lewes, Sea-side Studies, II. ii. 147. Minute suboval microscopic capsules.

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