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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
subspecies is a noun meaning "(biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species". It carries one recorded sense.
(biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for subspecies come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.