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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a subfamily.

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  • The power rested on the fact that this limited reconstruction can be used as a sure means, or so it was claimed, to resolve questions of ancestry and descent, complete with subfamilial rela - tionships, in a unique fashion.

    LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968

  • "Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the grasses (Poaceae)."

    NYT > Home Page By OLIVIA JUDSON 2010

  • Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the grasses (Poaceae)

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

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