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• African members of the subfamily Antilopinae include antilopine and neotragine species.From the entry antilopine
• The Scolytinae are a subfamily of weevils, called the bark beetles because of their habit of phloeophagy.From the entry phloeophagy
• Many organisms possessed several molybdoenzyme families and several subfamilies within these families.2016, Valeria Culotta, Metals in Cells, page 26. From the entry molybdoenzyme
• The other dominant ant subfamilies were also present but with lesser importance (fig. 1.4).2007, Victor Rico-Gray, Paulo S. Oliveira, The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions, page 12. From the entry myrmicine
• A large subfamily consists of irretractable and square-free solutions.2015, David Bachiller, Ferran Cedo, Eric Jespers, Jan Okninski, “A family of irretractable square-free solutions of the Yang-Baxter…. From the entry irretractable
• The swallow-tailed kite of the New World (Elanoides forficatus) is a striking black and white bird of the subfamily Perninae.2011, “Selected Falconiforms”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Meat Eaters: Raptors, Sharks, and Crocodiles (Britannica Guide to Predators…. From the entry kite
• Its distinguishing features, such as alation, hingement, posterior caudation, etc., are also found in other subfamilies of Cytheridae.1955, Journal of Paleontology - Volume 29, page 626. From the entry caudation
• The character of the tarsal podotheca is a useful generic character but too variable to use in delimiting the subfamilies .1912, Joel Asaph Allen, Historical and Nomenclatorial Notes on North American Sheep, page 262. From the entry podotheca
• A quartet of moths in the subfamily Thyatirinae, known collectively as lutestrings – of which the spring-flying Frosted Green and Yellow Horned are also members.2021, James Lowen, British Moths: A Gateway Guide, page 75. From the entry lutestring
• The small mammals include typical desert forms such as the burrowing rodents of the jerboa family and the jird or gerbil subfamily.2001, Peter Haggett, editor, China and Taiwan: Animal Life: Desert, River and Forest Specialists: Encyclopedia of World Geography, volume…. From the entry jerboa
• The large subfamily Nasutitermitinae includes many species which have soldiers with a pear-shaped, nasutiform head and several species build nests of carton.1970, Kumar Krishna, Frances M. Weesner, editors, Biology of Termites, volume II, New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, page 374. From the entry nasutiform
• The two distant shifts of downy mildews across three subfamilies of Asteraceae occurred rather recently, and in Asteroideae, a coevolutive adaptation has apparently not yet led to speciation.2015 August 1, “Host Jumps and Radiation, Not Co‐Divergence Drives Diversification of Obligate Pathogens. A Case Study in Downy Mildews…. From the entry coevolutive
• Parkia speciosa (common name: petai in Malay; twisted cluster bean or stink bean) is a tropical leguminous tree of the family of the Fabaceae, subfamily of the Mimosoideae.2008, Eric Frérot, Alain Velluz, Alain Bagnoud, Estelle Delort, “Analysis of the volatile constituents of cooked petai beans (Parkia…. From the entry stink bean
• In turn, there are two subfamilies of the diprotodontids: the zygomaturines, whose members have multi-cusped last upper premolars; and the diprotodontines, whose members have much simpler premolars.2000, Michael Archer, Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh, page 111. From the entry zygomaturine
• It might therefore be justified to separate them from the remaining genera of the subfamily Lithosinae as a tribus with two subtribus, or as two tribus.1965, A Revision of the West African Eilemic Moths, Based on the Male Genitalia, page 9. From the entry tribus

Meaning of subfamily

1. noun A taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus; formerly called a tribe.
2. noun A secondary or subordinate grouping.

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How do you use subfamily in a sentence?

Subfamily is used as a noun. For example: “African members of the subfamily Antilopinae include antilopine and neotragine species.”

What is a short sentence with subfamily?

“A large subfamily consists of irretractable and square-free solutions.”

What does subfamily mean?

Subfamily means a taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus; formerly called a tribe.