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subconcave

subconcave adjective: slightly concave.

Adjective

subconcave (not comparable)

  1. Slightly concave.
    • the inner surface and margins are red, the rest yellowish with red spots, when uninjected: the outer surface is subconcave and uneven, the inner surface convex and tubercular1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates

Origin of subconcave

From sub- + concave.

Questions about subconcave

What does subconcave mean?
Subconcave means slightly concave.
What part of speech is subconcave?
Subconcave is an adjective.

Words near subconcave in the dictionary

  1. subcompounds
  2. subcompressed
  3. subcomputation
  4. subcomputations
  5. subconcatenate
  6. subconcave
  7. subconcentration
  8. subconcentrations
  9. subconcept
  10. subconcepts
  11. subconceptual

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