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subalternate

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sub·al·ter·nate  (sb-ôltr-nt)
adj.
1. Subordinate.
2. Botany Arranged in an alternating pattern but tending to become opposite. Used of leaves.
sub·alter·nation (-nshn) n.
subalternate [sʌbˈɔːltənɪt]
adj
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) (of leaves) having an arrangement intermediate between alternate and opposite
2. following in turn
3. of lesser quality or status
subalternation  [sʌbˌɔːltəˈneɪʃən] n
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8 cm Shape Ovate Ovate Symmetry Symmetric Symmetric Petiole or rachis Midvein Midvein winged grooved and slightly winged Leaflets or lobes Arrangement Alternate- Subopposite subalternate Number 2 pairs of lateral 7 pairs lobes+one apical of leaflets Size (cm) 6-10 x 1-2 3-6 x 0.
Revision of the Proteaceae macrofossil record from Patagonia, ... by Gonzalez, Cynthia C.; Gandolfo, Maria A.; Zamaloa, Maria C.; Cuneo, Nestor R.; Wilf, Peter; Johnson, / The Botanical Review
It would be interesting to get to the bottom of this complicity between fiction as false belief and the use of those subalternates that are women and children as supports for a belief that is nothing more than the disavowal of our unwanted knowledge concerning our own shameful desires.
Robert Steiner by Blake, Nancy / The Review of Contemporary Fiction
 
 
 
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