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Subcostal   Listen
noun
Subcostal  n.  
1.
(Anat.) A subcostal muscle.
2.
(Zool.) One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal. See Nervure.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... the outer and inner margins nearly equal, about two-thirds the length of the anterior. Costal nervure two-thirds the entire length of the wing; subcostal nervule slightly deflected towards the end of the cell, throwing off its first nervule at about one-third of its length, the second about the middle of its course, the space between the origins of the second and third nervules not as long as that between the first and second, the fourth arising ...
— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes



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