subvariety

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

diversity multivariety multivariation divarication subquadrant variole subquadrangle bifurcation polytype pluriformity

Often followed by

of is in which

Word family

sub-varieties sub-variety subvarieties