Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a subgenus; having the rank, grade, or value of a subgenus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a subgenus.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
subgenus
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Examples
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To be elevated above the genre is a transcendent death and the birth of Literature, but as these movements harden, coalesce, are named, they fall back as subgeneric moments of SF.
A Link Hal Duncan 2008
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To be elevated above the genre is a transcendent death and the birth of Literature, but as these movements harden, coalesce, are named, they fall back as subgeneric moments of SF.
Archive 2008-03-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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An introduction to the subgeneric classification of Euphorbia L. with stress on the South African and Malagasy species.
Albany thickets 2008
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However, it can be argued that subgeneric ranking is justified; such a classification would be genus Salvelinus, subgenus Cristivomer, species namaycush.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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However, it can be argued that subgeneric ranking is justified; such a classification would be genus Salvelinus, subgenus Cristivomer, species namaycush.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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However, it can be argued that subgeneric ranking is justified; such a classification would be genus Salvelinus, subgenus Cristivomer, species namaycush.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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However, it can be argued that subgeneric ranking is justified; such a classification would be genus Salvelinus, subgenus Cristivomer, species namaycush.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Almost every species except the common Mushroom is characterized by the majority of our countrymen as a toadstool; but this title really appertains to the large group bearing the subgeneric name of
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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With this expectation I diligently studied that portion of Col.H. Smith's volume on the Ruminantia, which treat of the _Genus Bos_, and I here subjoin (verbatim) the generic and subgeneric characters there given of that Genus, by which it will be seen how far they fall short of the clearness and precision which are indispensable to a scientific work.
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