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ˈsubvaˌriety
[sub- 7 b.]
A subordinate or minor variety, esp. of a domestic animal or cultivated plant.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 536 Men of the class of professional lawyers..being, under all their varieties and sub-varieties, men. 1811Pinkerton Petral. Introd. p. ii, Some [writers] have Varieties; and Werner, with a truly German want of taste, has added Sub-species and Sub-varieties. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) II. 405 Some pathologists have set down Arachnitis as a sub-variety of the meningic form. 1868Darwin Anim. & Pl. I. i. 18 There is not sufficient evidence that any of these ancient dogs belonged to the same identical sub-varieties with our present dogs. 1875E. White Life in Christ iii. xxiii. (1878) 336 The original distinct kinds of living things, out of which all subvarieties have sprung. |