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sub⋅al⋅ter⋅nate

[suhb-awl-ter-nit, -al-]
–adjective
1. subordinate.
2. Botany. placed singly along an axis, but tending to become grouped oppositely.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < ML subalternātus (ptp. of subalternāre to subordinate), equiv. to subaltern(us) subaltern + -ātus -ate 1


sub⋅al⋅ter⋅na⋅tion [suhb-awl-ter-ney-shuhn, -al-] , noun
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