SUBFAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subfamily mean? 

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

1. (biology) a taxonomic category below a family

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBFAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biology) a taxonomic category below a family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("subfamily" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subfamily"):

Latinae (a subfamily of the family Centropomidae)

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

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes nuclear receptor subfamily 2 group C member 2 protein, plays a role in hormone-mediated transcriptional regulation.

(NR2C2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nuclear receptor subfamily 1 group I member 3 protein, plays a role in the regulation of xenobiotic and endobiotic metabolism.

(NR1I3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Golgin subfamily A member 5 (731 aa, ~83 kDa) is encoded by the human GOLGA5 gene.

(Golgin Subfamily A Member 5, NCI Thesaurus)

The subfamily of Paramyxoviridae which includes Mumps and Measles viruses.

(Paramyxovirinae, NCI Thesaurus)

Nuclear receptor subfamily 1 group I member 3 (352 aa, ~40 kDa) is encoded by the human NR1I3 gene.

(Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1 Group I Member 3, NCI Thesaurus)

Nuclear receptor subfamily 1 group D member 2 (579 aa, ~65 kDa) is encoded by the human NR1D2 gene.

(Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1 Group D Member 2, NCI Thesaurus)

A member of the picornaviridae family, subfamily hepatovirus.

(hepatitis A virus, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nuclear receptor subfamily 1 group D member 2 protein, plays a role in the regulation of gene expression.

(NR1D2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Neurturin is a member of the TGF-beta subfamily, TRN.

(Neurturin, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

A genus of the family PARAMYXOVIRIDAE (subfamily PARAMYXOVIRINAE) where all the virions have hemagglutinin but not neuraminidase activity.

(Morbillivirus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)