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Definition of Subbreed
1. n. A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.
Definition of Subbreed
1. Noun. (zoology) A race or strain differing in certain characteristics from the parent breed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subbreed
1. a distinguishable strain within a breed [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subbreed
Literary usage of Subbreed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse by Isaac Phillips Roberts (1917)
"A good illustration of a subbreed is the Delaine Merino sheep. This subbreed was
started by selecting animals that produced wool longer than the average. ..."
2. The Horse by Isaac Phillips Roberts (1905)
"A good illustration of a subbreed is the Delaine Merino sheep. This subbreed was
started by selecting animals that produced wool longer than the average. ..."
3. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1911)
"... breeding them under the most rigid performance-record plans, and thus creating
in a county or in a group of counties a new subbreed of highly efficient ..."
4. Sociology and Social Progress: A Handbook for Students of Sociology by Thomas Nixon Carver (1905)
"After describing some curious cases in pigeons, of the transmission of color by
one sex alone, and the formation of a subbreed with this character, ..."
5. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1869)
"In each breed or subbreed the individuals are more variable than birds in a state
of nature, and occasionally they vary in a sudden and strongly-marked ..."
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