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Subclass

noun
1.
(biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order.



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"Subclass" Quotes from Famous Books



... the simple ones, which form the food of green plants. We may have no hesitation, then, in calling them plants. It is interesting to notice that with this idea their place in the organic world is reduced to a small one systematically. They do not form a class by themselves, but are simply a subclass, or even a family, and a family closely related to several other common plants. But the absence of chlorophyll and the resulting peculiar life has brought about a curious anomaly. Whereas their closest allies are known only to botanists, and are of no interest outside of their ...
— The Story Of Germ Life • H. W. Conn



Words linked to "Subclass" :   biological science, taxon, biology, taxonomic group, taxonomic category



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