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  • noun Plural form of subvariety.

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Examples

  • But insofar as specific assertions are made, it would be good to be clear which of the four varieties and, if relevant, which subvarieties theyre meant to apply to.

    Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009

  • But insofar as specific assertions are made, it would be good to be clear which of the four varieties and, if relevant, which subvarieties theyre meant to apply to.

    Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009

  • But insofar as specific assertions are made, it would be good to be clear which of the four varieties and, if relevant, which subvarieties theyre meant to apply to.

    Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009

  • They come in all kinds of subvarieties of finish and trim: "" Spanish colonial, French provincial, California -- those are just the ones we know about. ''

    Back At The Ranch 2008

  • It was this writer who originated the custom of classifying men by their horse-power, and who divided them into genera, species, varieties, and subvarieties, giving them names from the hypothetical language which expressed the number of limbs which they could command at any moment.

    Erewhon 2003

  • In this group are several subvarieties, distinguished by minor differences, such as extent of reflexing and size of the plants.

    Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

  • Among the cereals were large and interesting collections of rice, both hulled and in the hull, representing hundreds of varieties and subvarieties grown in the different islands of the archipelago.

    Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

  • It was this writer who originated the custom of classifying men by their horse-power, and who divided them into genera, species, varieties, and subvarieties, giving them names from the hypothetical language which expressed the number of limbs which they could command at any moment.

    Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

  • I suppose if we passed one ranch we passed a thousand -- cattle ranches, fruit ranches, hen ranches, chicken ranches, bee ranches -- all the known varieties and subvarieties.

    Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910

  • Transitions are wholly wanting, although fallaciously apparent in some instances owing to the wide range of fluctuating variability of the forms concerned, or to the occurrence of hybrids and subvarieties.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

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