subspecificadj.

1795 A. H. Haworth Observ. Genus Mesembryanthemum ii. 376 Do not these sub-specific names, if they may so be called, perplex by their numbers?

1835 G. T. Burnett Outl. Bot. II. 861 The varieties of B. oleracea have been arranged in six tribes, or subspecific groups.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 246 Cuscuta Epithymum..does not seem entitled to sub-specific rank.

1905 Athenæum 25 Feb. 246/3 Mr. Rothschild's opinion that Gorilla castaneiceps of Slack was an aberration, and not entitled to specific or subspecific rank.

1957 E. C. Ogden in Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) Revision App. 379 Dr. E. O. Beal considers Nuphar in our area to be subspecific variants of the Eurasian N. luteum (L.) Sibth. & Sm.

2002 R. T. Peterson Field Guide Birds E. & Central N. Amer. (ed. 5) 5 Often a subspecific group is so distinct from the parent species that several members can be easily recognized by birdwatchers.

1837 Naturalist 1 187 These..may also be specifically or sub-specifically different.

1928 Auk 45 247 Forty species were seen, some of which, from the nature of the case, are not identified subspecifically.

2007 R. H. Busch Wolf Almanac (new ed.) 8 As..a better understanding of wolf genetics and behaviour has been gained, zoologists have tended to recognize fewer populations as being subspecifically or racially distinct.