单词 | subvariety |
释义 | subvarietyn. A subordinate or minor variety, esp. of something that may be classified taxonomically, as a domestic animal, a cultivated plant, a language, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > variety or species > [noun] > types of stroller1723 natural order1785 subvariety1785 line1805 alliance1835 aggregate1859 stirps1866 segregate1871 cultigen1918 agamospecies1929 the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > variety or sub-variety variety1629 subvariety1827 1785 W. Marshall Planting & Ornamental Gardening 91 It is evident, that each variety has its sub-varieties; through whose means, it can hardly be doubted, the parent variety may be improved. 1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) II. 389 Some pathologists have set down Arachnitis as a sub-variety of the meningic form. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. ix. ii. ii. 536 Men of the class of professional lawyers..being, under all their varieties and sub-varieties, men. 1850 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. (ed. 3) vii. 552 South Lancashire and Cheshire.—Sub-varieties of the same dialects, but not sub-varieties of the previous ones. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xxiii. 336 The original distinct kinds of living things, out of which all subvarieties have sprung. 1941 M. R. Haas in L. Spier et al. Lang., Culture, & Personality 42 Choctaw and Chickasaw are actually subvarieties of the same language. 1976 K. Reddick Horses 139 There are two regional sub-varieties of this breed [sc. the Noriker]: the Pinzgauer Noriker of Austria and the Oberlander of Bavaria. 2003 Decanter Aug. 20/3 Sangiovese, after all, is a notoriously temperamental and unpredictable grape, with sub-varieties so numerous as to be beyond classification. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1785 |
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