Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated at the bottom of or under the nose; specifically, situated at the base of the anterior nasal spine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated under the nose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Located under the
nose .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This may indicate that modern human midfacial and subnasal morphology is retention of a juvenile pattern that developed in Homo antecessor, which was not yet present in Homo ergaster and never developed in Homo heidelbergensis or Neandertals.
A New Species? 1997
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For the determination of the variations in the facial part of the skull Camper had already settled by measurement the facial angle, that is the angle made by the profile line and auriculo-subnasal line (the line from the ear orifice to the lowest part of the nose).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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He had a mustache, but not a very repulsive one; not one of those subnasal pigtails on which soup is suspended like dew on a shrub; it was short, thick, and black as a coal.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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He had a moustache, but not a very repulsive one -- not one of those subnasal pigtails on which soup is suspended like dew on a shrub; it was short, thick, and black as a coal.
Stories by English Authors: England Thomas Hardy 1884
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