subvariety

Type within type

A subvariety is a subdivision within a variety—a finer classification one level down.

The term appears in botany and agriculture, where a plant variety may contain distinct subvarieties, and in mathematics, where it describes a subset of an algebraic variety that is itself a variety: Each subvariety of the curve was analyzed separately.

agricultural

cultivar

Bred plant variety

seedling · graft · heirloom · clone · selection · landrace · hybrid · crop · germplasm · propagation

biological

genotype

Organism's complete allele set

  • phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
  • biotypeGenetically identical organism group
  • morphChange form gradually

hybrid · landrace · clone · lineage · haplotype · variant · mutant · selection · stock · race

taxonomy

cultivar

Bred plant variety

  • strainExcessive stretching force
  • breedCultivated variety of animal
  • subspeciesTaxonomic rank beneath species

form · classification · nomenclature · typology · categorization · systematics · identification · binomial · genus · species

subset

type

Category sharing traits

class · division · subdivision · segment · branch · subcategory · variant · form · gradation · distinction

Opposites
taxonomic hierarchy level

subvarietyspecies

Finest taxonomic rank

genus · family · order · variety · class

specificity vs. generality

subvarietywhole

Full and undivided

totality · aggregate · broad category · superclass · supercategory

Family

variety, various, variation, variable, variability, varieties, varietal

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