subalternating

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ alternating.

Adjective

subalternating (not comparable)

  1. subalternate; successive
    subalternating science
  2. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    • 1965, Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and Other Caribbean Islands:
      Between these internodes there is occasionally an internode with only two pairs of subalternating hydrothecae

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subalternating”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)