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subfamilies

subfamilies is the plural of subfamily.

Meaning of subfamily

Noun

subfamily (plural subfamilies)

  1. A taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus; formerly called a tribe.
  2. A secondary or subordinate grouping.
    • There is a handy font editor tool in the engine, where you can import your font and create family and subfamily for your font (for example, the same font can have a family for its bold, italic, light, and dark style as its subfamily).2015, Nicola Valcasara, Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints, page 142

Questions about subfamilies

What is subfamilies the plural of?
Subfamilies is the plural of subfamily.

Words near subfamilies in the dictionary

  1. subfaculty
  2. subfalcate
  3. subfalciform
  4. subfalcine
  5. subfamilial
  6. subfamilies
  7. subfamily
  8. subfan
  9. subfandom
  10. subfandoms
  11. subfans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subfamilies (page history and authors); subfamily (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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