Crossword-Solution: SUBFAMILY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Subfamily | n. | One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| a taxonomic category below a family | 1 answer |
| taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a family | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SUBFAMILY (5)
The three existing genera, _a_14, _q_14, _p_14, will form a small family; _b_14 and _f_14, a closely allied family or subfamily; and _o_14, _e_14, _m_14, a third family.
But the three genera on the left hand have, on this same principle, much in common, and form a subfamily, distinct from that containing the next two genera on the right hand, which diverged from a common parent at the fifth stage of descent.
Instances could be given among plants and insects, of a group first ranked by practised naturalists as only a genus, and then raised to the rank of a subfamily or family; and this has been done, not because further research has detected important structural differences, at first overlooked, but because numerous allied species, with slightly different grades of difference, have been subsequently discovered.
The name buzzard, however, belongs quite as rightfully to the birds called in books "harriers," which form a distinct subfamily of _Falconidae_ under the title _Circinae_, and by it one species, the moor-buzzard (_Circus aeruginosus_), is still known in such places as it inhabits.
The honey-buzzard (_Pernis apivorus_), a summer-visitor from the south, and breeding, or attempting to breed, yearly in the New Forest, does not come into the subfamily _Buteoninae_, but is probably the type of a distinct group, _Perninae_, of which there are other examples in Africa and Asia.