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The word "subcategory" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe an individual division of something that is more generally classified within a larger group. For example, "The grocery store stocks a wide variety of fruits, organized into subcategories such as citrus, berries, and melons."
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subcategory
noun
With respect to a given category, a more narrow category.
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Of the remainder almost all are in the "manufacturing" subcategory.
The top ten schools* on the list a subcategory of our annual ranking of 100 business schools are shown in the table below.
The advance in question was limited to a specialised subcategory of the problem, and the consensus seems to be that it does not, by itself, pose a threat to existing encryption protocols.
Drums are the largest subcategory of membranophones.
In June 2008 the IAU created a subcategory within the dwarf planet category, called plutoids, for all dwarf planets that are farther from the Sun than Neptune that is, bodies that are large KBOs.
A noteworthy subcategory of fugue is the type based on a cantus firmus.
Some critics place his music in the "cool jazz" category and, being based in California, many of his players including Shorty Rogers, Bill Perkins, and Shelly Manne were identified with West Coast jazz, a subcategory of cool jazz.
The very concept of improvisation as a mere subcategory within performance practice could arise only after the invention of music printing, which had at first little discernible effect on performance.
A subcategory of racing bikes is known as superbikes.
Both bodies are also classified as plutoids, members of a subcategory created by the IAU in June 2008 for dwarf planets that are farther from the Sun than Neptune.
However, there is a subcategory within horror that substantiates uncomfortable claims of misogyny within the genre.
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