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WOTD – 6 October 2017 Category:Word of the day archive/2017/October Category:Word of the day archive Category:Word of the day archive/2017

Etymology

The European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris), the nominate subspecies of wildcats (Felis silvestris)

The African wildcat (Felis silvestris lybicaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Felis%20silvestris%20lybica), another subspecies of the wildcat

From sub- +‎ speciesCategory:English terms prefixed with sub-#SPECIES.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌbspiːʃiːz/, /-ʃɪz/, /-siːz/Category:English 3-syllable words#SUBSPECIES Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SUBSPECIES
Audio (General Australian): (file)
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Hyphenation: sub‧spe‧cies

Noun

subspecies (plural subspecies)Category:English lemmas#SUBSPECIES Category:English nouns#SUBSPECIES Category:English countable nouns#SUBSPECIES Category:English nouns with irregular plurals#SUBSPECIES Category:English indeclinable nouns#SUBSPECIES Category:English entries with incorrect language header#SUBSPECIES Category:Pages with entries#SUBSPECIES Category:Pages with 2 entries#SUBSPECIES

(taxonomy Category:en:Taxonomy#SUBSPECIES) A rank in the classification of organisms, below species.
- 1866, A[ndrew] C[rombie] Ramsay, “Trilobita”, in The Geology of North Wales (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology; [III]), London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office; published by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, →OCLC, page 325:
  I believe it [the trilobite Calymene blumenbachiiCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Calymene%20blumenbachii] has been divided into several forms, which cannot claim more than the rank of subspecies, as they pass by slight gradations into forms which no author has yet thought it right to separate from the type species.
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- 2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature‎, number 446:
  Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.
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(taxonomy Category:en:Taxonomy#SUBSPECIES) A taxon at that rank, often indicated with trinomial nomenclature (such as Felis silvestris silvestris in zoology and Pinus nigra subsp. salzmanniiCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Pinus%20nigra%20subsp.%20salzmannii in botany).
- 1851, [Johann Jakob] Kaup, “Descriptions of Some New Birds in the Museum of the Earl of Derby”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, part XIX, London: Printed for the Society; sold at their house in Hanover Square, and by Messrs. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
  But these slight differences will not justify us in considering the West African chiquera as a true species distinct from the Indian true chiquera; it is only a subspecies of the latter true species.
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A subdivision of a species in other scientific disciplines.
- 1821, Robert Jameson, Manual of Mineralogy: Containing an Account of Simple Minerals, and also a Description and Arrangement of Mountain Rocks, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., →OCLC, page 166:
  Granular Augite. […] This subspecies of augite has been hitherto found principally in primitive rocks at Arendal in Norway, in several of the iron-mines, particularly that named Ulve-Grube.
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Synonyms

(abbreviations): ssp., subsp.

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rank in the classification of organisms

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Afrikaans: subspesieCategory:Terms with Afrikaans translations#SUBSPECIES
Arabic: نُوَيْع (nuwayʕ)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#SUBSPECIES
Aragonese: subespecie fCategory:Terms with Aragonese translations#SUBSPECIES
Armenian: ենթատեսակ (hy) (entʻatesak)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#SUBSPECIES
Azerbaijani: yarımnövCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#SUBSPECIES
Basque: azpiespezieCategory:Terms with Basque translations#SUBSPECIES
Bengali: উপপ্রজাতি (upoprojati)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#SUBSPECIES
Bihari: उपप्रजातिCategory:Terms with Bihari translations#SUBSPECIES
Breton: isspesad (br)Category:Terms with Breton translations#SUBSPECIES
Catalan: subespècie fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#SUBSPECIES
Chinese:
Cantonese: 亞種 / 亚种 (aa³ zung²)Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#SUBSPECIES

Hokkien: á-chéngCategory:Terms with Hokkien translations#SUBSPECIES

Mandarin: 亞種 / 亚种 (zh) (yàzhǒng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#SUBSPECIES Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#SUBSPECIES
Czech: poddruh (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#SUBSPECIES
Danish: underart cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#SUBSPECIES
Dutch: ondersoort (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#SUBSPECIES
Esperanto: subspecioCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#SUBSPECIES
Estonian: alamliikCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#SUBSPECIES
Finnish: alalaji (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#SUBSPECIES
French: sous-espèce (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#SUBSPECIES
Frisian:
West Frisian: undersoarteCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#SUBSPECIES
Galician: subespecie (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#SUBSPECIES
Georgian: ქვესახეობა (kvesaxeoba)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#SUBSPECIES
German: Unterart (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#SUBSPECIES, Rasse (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#SUBSPECIES, Subspezies (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#SUBSPECIES
Greek: υποείδος (el) n (ypoeídos)Category:Terms with Greek translations#SUBSPECIES
Hebrew: תת־מיןCategory:Hebrew links with redundant alt parameters#SUBSPECIES Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#SUBSPECIES
Hungarian: alfaj (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#SUBSPECIES
Ilocano: subsebbanganCategory:Terms with Ilocano translations#SUBSPECIES
Indonesian: upaspesiesCategory:Terms with Indonesian translations#SUBSPECIES
Interlingua: subespecieCategory:Terms with Interlingua translations#SUBSPECIES
Irish: fospeiceas mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#SUBSPECIES
Italian: sottospecie (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#SUBSPECIES
Japanese: 亜種 (ja) (あしゅ, ashu)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#SUBSPECIES
Javanese: subspesiesCategory:Terms with Javanese translations#SUBSPECIES
Korean: 아종 (ko) (ajong)Category:Terms with Korean translations#SUBSPECIES
Latin: subspecies fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#SUBSPECIES
Latvian: pasuga fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#SUBSPECIES
Lithuanian: porūšis fCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#SUBSPECIES
Low German:
German Low German: Ünneroort fCategory:Terms with German Low German translations#SUBSPECIES Category:Terms with Low German translations#SUBSPECIES, Raaß fCategory:Terms with German Low German translations#SUBSPECIES Category:Terms with Low German translations#SUBSPECIES, Rooß fCategory:Terms with German Low German translations#SUBSPECIES Category:Terms with Low German translations#SUBSPECIES
Macedonian: подвид m (podvid)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#SUBSPECIES
Malay: subspesiesCategory:Terms with Malay translations#SUBSPECIES
Maltese: sottospeċi fCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#SUBSPECIES
Norwegian:
Bokmål: underart (no) m or fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#SUBSPECIES

Nynorsk: underart m or fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#SUBSPECIES
Persian: زیرگونه (fa)Category:Terms with Persian translations#SUBSPECIES
Polish: podgatunek (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#SUBSPECIES
Portuguese: subespécie (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#SUBSPECIES
Romanian: subspecie (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#SUBSPECIES
Russian: подви́д (ru) m (podvíd)Category:Terms with Russian translations#SUBSPECIES
Scots: subspeciesCategory:Terms with Scots translations#SUBSPECIES
Serbo-Croatian: pȍdvrsta (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#SUBSPECIES
Slovak: poddruh mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#SUBSPECIES
Slovene: podvrsta fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#SUBSPECIES
Spanish: subespecie (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#SUBSPECIES
Swedish: underart (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#SUBSPECIES
Tamil: துணையினம் (tuṇaiyiṉam)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#SUBSPECIES
Telugu: ఉపజాతి (te) ? (upajāti)Category:Requests for gender in Telugu entries#SUBSPECIES Category:Terms with Telugu translations#SUBSPECIES
Thai: ชนิดย่อยCategory:Terms with Thai translations#SUBSPECIES
Turkish: alt tür (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#SUBSPECIES
Turkmen: kiçi görnüşCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#SUBSPECIES
Ukrainian: підвид m (pidvyd)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#SUBSPECIES
Vietnamese: loài phụCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#SUBSPECIES, phân loàiCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#SUBSPECIES
Welsh: isrywogaeth (cy) fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#SUBSPECIES
Yakut: көрүҥ үөдүҥэ (körüŋ üödüŋe)Category:Terms with Yakut translations#SUBSPECIES

Latin

	singular	plural
nominative	subspeciēs	subspeciēs
genitive	subspeciēī	subspeciērum
dative	subspeciēī	subspeciēbus
accusative	subspeciem	subspeciēs
ablative	subspeciē	subspeciēbus
vocative	subspeciēs	subspeciēs

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