subfamily
noun
a category of related genera within a family.
subfamilies
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pluralof subfamily.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Kane hopes that the vaccine strategy his team identified can be applied to other viruses -- other coronavirus subfamilies as well as other viruses such as influenza viruses.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
The researchers also detected pupal ‘milk’ in species from each of the five biggest ant subfamilies, suggesting that it could play a part in the evolution of ant social structures.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 2, 2022
Of the 130 kinase types in yeast, 97 belong to the 55 subfamilies of kinases that are found in other eukaryotic organisms.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
There is little overlap between rodent subfamilies and human-infective subfamilies, despite P. ovale being a sister taxa to the rodent-infecting species.
From Nature ● Jan. 24, 2017
But one of those subfamilies, termed Malayo-Polynesian, comprises 945 of those 959 languages and covers almost the entire geographic range of the Austronesian family.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
