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subfamily

subfamily noun: a taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus; formerly called a tribe.

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

subfamily meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Tagalog and Malay

subfamily in Tamil

உள் குடும்பம்

subfamily in Telugu

taxonomic category
ఉపకుటుంబము upakuṭumbamu

subfamily in Tagalog

taxonomic category
kub-angkanhay

subfamily in Malay

taxonomic category
subkeluarga, subfamili
More languagesFewer languages
subfamily in Indonesian
upafamili, upakeluarga

Examples of subfamily in a sentence

  • African members of the subfamily Antilopinae include antilopine and neotragine species.
  • The Scolytinae are a subfamily of weevils, called the bark beetles because of their habit of phloeophagy.
  • Many organisms possessed several molybdoenzyme families and several subfamilies within these families.

All 15 example sentences with subfamily

Forms of subfamily

pluralsubfamilies

Plural of subfamily: subfamilies

Origin of subfamily

From sub- + family.

Words formed from subfamily

Questions about subfamily

What does subfamily mean?
Subfamily means a taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus; formerly called a tribe.
What is subfamily in Tamil?
Subfamily in Tamil is உள் குடும்பம். See Subfamily meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is subfamily?
Subfamily is a noun.
What is the plural of subfamily?
The plural of subfamily is subfamilies.

Words near subfamily in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: subfamily (page history and authors); subfamily (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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