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(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).
Inferior and superior are generally followed by to; than is seen sometimes, but is viewed as wrong because than requires a grammatical comparative, not a notional one.
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et quotiēns steterīs domitō sublīmis in orbe, omnia sint numerīs īnferiōra tuīs.
And whenever you will stand exalted for having conquered the world, may everything be lower than your shoulders! (The poet foretells the eventual dominion of the Roman Empire now that Romulus has founded the city of Rome.)
2021 July 21, Juan Garzon, “Los mejores celulares Android de 2021”, in CNN en Español:
Los principales sacrificios para esto llegan a través de una memoria RAM inferior (6 GB vs. 8 GB), no se puede cargar inalámbricamente, no tiene carga inalámbrica reversible y no es resistente al agua.
2023 August 20, Jordi Quixano, “España se hace inmortal con la conquista de su primer Mundial femenino”, in El País, archived from the original on 21 August 2023:
España derribó la puerta de la eternidad para hacerse inmortal, para ponerse el laurel de oro y diamantes, para significarse al fin como la mejor del mundo, cosa que llevaba años haciendo en las categorías inferiores.