SUBGENUS (subgenera)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: subgenera   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does subgenus mean? 

• SUBGENUS (noun)
  The noun SUBGENUS has 1 sense:

1. (biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species

  Familiarity information: SUBGENUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBGENUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("subgenus" is a kind of...):

taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Holonyms ("subgenus" is a member of...):

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

 Context examples 

A species of lentivirus, subgenus equine lentiviruses, causing acute and chronic infection in horses.

(Equine Infectious Anemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)