Meanings
nounvar. (plural vars.)
plural vars.
- abbreviationAbbreviation of variant.
- abbreviationAbbreviation of variation.
- abbreviationbiologyAbbreviation of variety.
Some of these roses and other exotic spp. are the parents of our cultivated roses—tea roses, hybrid perpetuals, climbers, ramblers etc.—over 5000 vars. having been named.
1956, Arthur Harmount Graves, “Ròsa—Rose”, in Illustrated Guide to Trees and Shrubs : A Handbook of the Woody Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, revised edition, New York: Dover Publications, published 1992, page 146 - abbreviationAbbreviation of variometer.
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
Broader
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