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Type of taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group

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Conceptually, a superclass should be considered as a common part of its subclasses.
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With inheritance, behaviour of a superclass can be inherited by subclasses.
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For instance, among the additional ranks of class are superclass, subclass and infraclass.
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A class may be a subclass of another, inheriting characteristics from its parent superclass.
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Carbonado Storables are not pure POJOs, and they must always extend the Storable superclass.
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A superclass, base class, or parent class is a class from which other classes have been derived.
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In practice, this means that any instance of the subtype is also an instance of the superclass.
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As an alternative example, animal is a superclass of primate and primate is a superclass of human.
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Members of the superclass are almost entirely male.
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  • (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class
  • Superclass - The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making is a controversial book about global governance by US author David Rothkopf, released in March 2008 by publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ...
  • In computer science, a superclass, base class, or parent class is a class from which other classes are derived. The classes that are derived from a superclass are known as child classes, derived classes, or subclasses.
  • (Superclasses) rdfs:Resource, foaf:Agent
  • In a generalization relationship, the generalization of another class; the subclass. See generalization. Contrast: subclass.
  • A class's superclasses include its direct superclass, its direct superclass's direct superclass, and so on, all the way up to Any.
  • A Class-Schema object from which one or more other Class-Schema objects inherit. See Inheritance.
  • A class that is inherited from by another, i.e., the other extends the superclass. Contrast subclass. See the chapter on Inheritance.
  • A class-1 is a superclass of class-2 iff class-2 is a subclass of class-1. A superclass can be either direct or indirect or itself.