a. Nat. Hist. [f. prec. after specific.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a subspecies.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 246. Cuscuta Epithymum … does not seem entitled to sub-specific rank.
1883. W. S. Kent, in A. J. Adderley, Fisheries Bahamas, 44. Three specific or sub-specific forms that correspond very closely with the three leading Mediterranean types above described.
1905. Athenæum, 25 Feb., 246/3. Mr. Rothschild’s opinion that Gorilla castaneiceps of Slack was an aberration, and not entitled to specific or subspecific rank.
Hence Subspecifically adv.
1883. Athenæum, 15 Dec., 781/2. A species of paradise bird of the genus Drepanornis … subspecifically different from D. albertisi of North-Eastern New Guinea.
1896. Brit. Birds, Their Nests & Eggs, II. 60. The serin being only subspecifically distinct from the canary.
