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subfamily

[suhb-fam-uh-lee, -fam-lee, suhb-fam-uh-lee, -fam-lee] / sʌbˈfæm ə li, -ˈfæm li, ˈsʌbˌfæm ə li, -ˌfæm li /


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Some hematophages are well-known: For example, vampire bats in the subfamily Desmodontinae helped inspire the legendary monsters that bear their name and no one can forget blood-sucking mosquitoes and leeches.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024

Researchers placed the specimen in the subfamily Mosasaurinae and named it Megapterygius wakayamaensis to recognize where it was found.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2023

Horticulturist Qiang Xu of Huazhong Agricultural University in China and his colleagues recently set out to map the evolutionary journey of the orange subfamily.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023

It describes a large and geographically widespread subfamily of African languages that make up part of the larger Niger-Congo language family.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Even the Semitic subfamily itself is mainly African, 12 of its 19 surviving languages being confined to Ethiopia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"Previous versions of the sunflower family tree had established the relationships among most of the subfamilies and many tribes, which are equivalent to the main branches of a tree," Ma said.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2024

The tyrosine kinases evolved before yeast diverged from other eukaryotes, but the other fifty-five subfamilies of kinases evolved after yeast diverged.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Today, after several thousand years Noruz is the cornerstone of all the Iranian subfamilies being from northern China or Bulgaria.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016

TPS subfamilies are indicated on the circumference of the circle.

From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014

It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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