penultima's Usage Examples:

The last-named species has a straight symmetrical abdomen, with the penultimate segment expanded and strongly calcified to form a back-door to the very unconventional habitation.

This wasn't helped by an extremely tardy over rate by the opposition, who bowled their penultimate hour 18 overs in 1hr 15mins.

Young resembling parents, but penultimate instar passive and enclosed in a filmy pellicle.

With Band Aid finishing the penultimate week over 240,000 sales of its nearest rival it seems that this years chart topper is already determined.

Why would she suddenly remember that phrase?Usually this transformation comes with apparent suddenness, at the penultimate stage of the insect's life-history, when the passive pupa (fig.

The genital ducts open on the penultimate somite.

Genital opening between the penultimate legs; oviduct with receptacula seminis and ovorum; unpaired part of vas deferens long; male accessory glands two, opening medianly between the legs of the last pair.

The larvae of species belonging to the Culicinae have a prominent breathing tube, or respiratory siphon, on the penultimate (eighth) abdominal segment, and when taking in air hang head downwards (often nearly vertically) from the surface film.

Hexapoda and Arachnida); the penultimate joint with a process equal in length to the last joint, so as to form a nipping organ (chelae of Crustaceans and Arachnids); the last joint reflected and movable on the penultimate, as the blade of a clasp-knife on its handle (the retrovert, After Lankester, Q.

When I was a wee nipper all we had at school were guinea pigs not real pigs!A common modification of the chief ramus of the Arthropod parapodium is the chela or nipper formed by the elongation of the penultimate joint of the ramus, so that the last joint works on it FIG.

Young animals always unlike parents, the wing-rudiments developing beneath the larval cuticle and only appearing in a penultimate pupal instar, which takes no food and is usually passive.

The asci may be derived from the terminal cell of the branches of the ascogenous hyphae, but usually they are derived from the penultimate cell, the tip curving over to form the so-called crozier.

Synonyms:

penultimate, syllable, penult,

Antonyms:

terminal,