Hypertext Webster Gateway: "subfamily"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Subfamily \Sub*fam"i*ly\, n. (Biol.)
One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into
which certain families are divided.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

subfamily
n : (biology) a taxonomic category below a family


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