subtypicaladj.
/ˌsʌbˈtɪpᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈtɪpᵻk(ə)l/ 1. Not quite typical; less than typical; (Zoology) deviating slightly from the type of a species or other taxon; spec. (in the quinary system of classification) designating a group of species considered to be of intermediate character between typical and aberrant forms (now historical).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > not typical
atypicala1883
subtypical1888
1831 W. Swainson in Jrnl. Royal Inst. Great Brit. 2 23 Genus Anas... Typical group... Sub Typical Group... Aberrant group.
1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 241 The bivalve shell-fish..constitute the second or sub-typical group in the quinary system.
1888 Gaillard's Med. Jrnl. 47 254 There are sub-typical cases, visual projections and nothing more, or headache unpreceded by visual projections, and not followed by vomiting.
1927 Jrnl. Philos. Stud. 2 345 We may divide the mammals, from our present point of view, into five main grades—the primitive and sub-typical forms, the typical successful creatures, the tailed monkeys, the apes, and man.
1983 G. K. Lewis Main Currents in Caribbean Thought (2004) 161 A similar distinction between overall regularities and subtypical differentiations can be made in the analysis of the ideological superstructure.
2010 Astrophysical Jrnl. 709 14/2 The initial angular momenta of our stars ensure that if they were of solar metallicity, they would fall at typical to subtypical rotation rates.
2. Of, relating to, or of the nature of a subtype.
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subtypical1871
1835 G. T. Burnett Outl. Bot. II. 959 These do not seem to be more than subtypical groups; and hence eight types are all that are admitted here.
1871 Trans. Linn. Soc. 27 228 Setting aside the Silurian casts..as somewhat doubtfully pertaining to this subtypical form, we may regard as the earliest specimens those of the Lower and Middle Lias of the north-east of France.
1946 Jrnl. Mammalogy 27 147 On the Missouri drainage of the third prairie steppe, drummondii is subtypical and nearly everywhere exhibits more or less intergradation with insperatus.
1967 Afr. Res. Stud. vi. 136 A series of subtypical variants are known, some of which include human forms, animal forms, or geometric decorations.
2005 H. C. Thomas et al. Viral Hepatitis x. 154/2 The best known subtypical determinants are d or y54.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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