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SUBGENUS
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Irregular inflected form: subgenera
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("subgenus" is a kind of...):
taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Holonyms ("subgenus" is a member of...):
genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)
