subgranularly

English

Etymology

From subgranular +‎ -ly.

Adverb

subgranularly (comparative more subgranularly, superlative most subgranularly)

1. In a somewhat or finely granular manner.
   • 1877, Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume VI, page 286:

     Elytra a little longer than wide conjointly, finely striate, intervals with a row of moderately coarse elongate punctures each bearing a semierect hair, surface subgranularly alutaceous.

   • 1993, Zhishu Bi, The Macrofungus Flora of China's Guangdong Province, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 224:

     Pileus 1.1-3.5 cm long, 0.5-2.3 cm broad, 3-4 mm thick near the base, broadly attached, narrowly eaves-like to flaballate, surface white, zonate, glaborous, subgranularly tuberculose near the base.

   • 2024 April 22, Wikipedia contributors, “Conus brunneus”, in English Wikipedia‎^[1], Wikimedia Foundation:

     The base of the shell is subgranularly striate.