something having a minor flaw
a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
to make imperfect
not perfect
belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.
A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
(of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
Lower in rank, status, or quality.
On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
Of low rank, standard or quality.
Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
Below the horizon.
Printed in subscript.