Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A subdivision that has common differentiating characteristics within a larger branch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A subdivision of a branch, in any sense of that word.
- noun Specifically, in zoölogical classification, a prime division of a branch or phylum; a subphylum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
branch that is itself anoffshoot of a branch of something. - noun Part of a branch.
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Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as well as Kurdish, Baluchi, Pashto, and Ossetic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as well as Kurdish, Baluchi, Pashto, and Ossetic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Jan 24 2008 Whoops, Eyak isn't quite an Athabaskan language but rather a coordinate subbranch of the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit family, according to the Alaska Native Language Center.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Jan 24 2008 Whoops, Eyak isn't quite an Athabaskan language but rather a coordinate subbranch of the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit family, according to the Alaska Native Language Center.
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His central theme is that these concepts make evolutionary biology an autonomous science, and not merely a subbranch of physics.
Taking a Chance on Evolution Smith, John Maynard 1992
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· (MNP) Unfolding a node now selects the entire subbranch.
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This will make it easier to reposition a newly unfolded subbranch.
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After counting the each of the subbranch and collecting the results in dictionaries, the dictionaries were merged together.clojure. core/merge-with
Planet Python 2009
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This will make it easier to reposition a newly unfolded subbranch.
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· (MNP) Unfolding a node now selects the entire subbranch.
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