product type; sort; variety of goods
Used in business, manufacturing, and retail for types or varieties of goods or products; 種類 is the broader everyday word.
This factory does small-lot production of many product types.
売れない品種を減らして、在庫を整理した。
We reduced the product varieties that were not selling and organized the inventory.
taxonomic form
Technical taxonomy use, corresponding to a form or rank below a variety in some classifications; distinct from the everyday agricultural or animal-breed sense.
分類学では、品種が変種より下位の階級として扱われることがある。
In taxonomy, a form may be treated as a rank below a variety.
breed; variety; cultivar; kind
Common for plant cultivars, crop varieties, animal breeds, and selected biological varieties, especially in agriculture, horticulture, and breeding contexts.
このリンゴは寒さに強い品種です。
This apple is a variety that is resistant to cold.
その犬の品種は日本でも人気がある。
That breed of dog is popular in Japan too.
農家は新しい米の品種を試験的に育てている。
The farmers are experimentally growing a new variety of rice.
Farmers improved the rice variety through breeding and increased yields.
The research institute developed a new, disease-resistant variety.
The taste varies greatly depending on the variety.
That shop carries many varieties of wine.
geographic race; geographic variety; geographic subspecies
high-yield variety
high-mix, low-volume manufacturing; production of many product types in small quantities