subspecies
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++sub·spe·cies /ˈsʌbˌspiːʃiːz/ noun (plural subspecies) [countable] HBa group of similar plants or animals that is smaller than a species 〔动植物的〕亚种
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subspecies• There is a subspecies called philosophers of science who ought to be better equipped.• A subspecies comes from Hawaii, and is probably the one pictured.• Fukuyama is unlikely to attach much weight to Liberation theology, which he would no doubt classify as a doomed subspecies of Marxism-Leninism.• Tod has a sensing mechanism which guides his responses to all identifiable subspecies.• If man has emerged as a master species, why should we not look forward to a master subspecies or race?• This supposedly protected subspecies continues to die in the tuna nets - Sam LaBudde witnessed 200 drown in a single net.• Seventeen and a half thousand species of butterfly have been described-but they are divided into a hundred thousand subspecies.sub·spe·cies nounChineseSyllable
plants animals or of group similar a Corpus
subspecies
sub‧spe‧cies /ˈsʌbˌspiːʃiːz/
noun (plural subspecies) [countable]
a group of similar plants or animals that is smaller than a species
sub‧spe‧cies /ˈsʌbˌspiːʃiːz/
noun (plural subspecies) [countable]a group of similar plants or animals that is smaller than a species