Subvariety

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A secondary or subsidiary variety.; A subset of a variety which is itself a variety.
  2. 2
    A secondary or subsidiary variety.; A subordinate language variety.
  3. 3
    A rank below that of variety.

Etymology

From sub- + variety.

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