Variety plural

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In the variety plural (species plural), the plural is used for substance names , taxa of the systematic sciences and others in order to name the subclasses in a qualitatively differentiated manner.

Examples

• Use of oils instead of types of oil
• Dogs as metataxons to domestic dogs

See also

• Countability (grammar)
• Collective

Web links

Wiktionary: variety plural  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Variety plural "earths, waters and sands" Duden

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• Peter Eisenberg: Outline of the German grammar. 3rd revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-476-01232-8 .
• Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-476-01519-X .