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sub-floral

sub-floral adjective: not quite floral. Also the alternative form of subfloral.

Adjective

sub-floral (not comparable)

  1. Not quite floral.
    • Color is used sparingly and in sub-floral arrangements added in pots and planters.1974, Stores - Volume 56, page 11
    • Above the veneer was painted plaster, with decorations of geometric architectural and sub-floral motifs in green, yellow, red and black on white ground — non-figurative subjects be it noted.1986, Jordan. Dāʼirat al-Āthār al-ʻĀmmah, Annual of the Department of Antiquities - Volume 30, page 172

Also used as

sub-floral is also the alternative form of subfloral.

Questions about sub-floral

What does sub-floral mean?
Sub-floral means not quite floral.
What part of speech is sub-floral?
Sub-floral is an adjective.

Words near sub-floral in the dictionary

  1. sub-etherics
  2. sub-ethers
  3. sub-excavation
  4. sub-excavations
  5. sub-extremal
  6. sub-floral
  7. sub-fusc
  8. sub-fuscs
  9. sub-Gaussian
  10. sub-genre
  11. sub-genres

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