Subclass

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A subdivision of a set or class.
  • n. Biology A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking between a class and an order.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A rank directly below class
  • n. In object-oriented programming, an object class derived from another class (its superclass) from which it inherits a base set of properties and methods.
  • v. In object-oriented programming, to create a subclass of.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A prime subdivision of a class; in zoology and botany, a division or group of a grade between the class and the order; a superorder.
  • n. In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see rock), a division between class and order, based on the relative proportions of the two subgroups of the preponderant group of standard minerals.
  • To place in a sub-class or secondary division of its class.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order
    • Verb Form
    subclassed    subclasses    subclassing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    taxonomic category    taxonomic group    taxon   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    phylum    suborder    arthropoda    two-parent    taxon   
     
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