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What does submarginal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Less than, or worse than, marginal. Not meeting even the minimum standard of quality.
  2. (anatomy) Below a margin.
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The underside is chalky white to pale grey with tiny dark grey spots and a zigzagged submarginal line on the hindwing.
Marginal and submarginal meristems on opposite flanks of the primordium initiate leaf-blade formation.
The placenta is usually located in a region corresponding somewhat to the margins of a leaf but is actually submarginal in position.
It is best distinguished from the Canadian Tiger Swallowtail by the entirely yellow lunular submarginal spots on the underside of the hindwing.
The female has orange forewings with prominent black spots and an orange submarginal zigzag band on the hindwing upperside.
The wings with one marginal and three submarginal cells, and one recurrent nervure.

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