From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsubspeciessub‧spe‧cies /ˈsʌbˌspiːʃiːz/ noun (plural subspecies) [countable] HBa group of similar plants or animals that is smaller than a species
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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. 