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Adjektiivi

1. (with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality.
2. Of low rank, standard or quality.
3. (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
4. (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
5. Located below:
6. (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
7. (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
8. (botany) 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).
9. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
10. (typography) Printed in subscript.
11. (astronomy) Below the horizon.
12. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.

Substantiivi

1. A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
2. (printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.