品ひん種しゅ

noun

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.

• この工こう場じょうでは多た品ひん種しゅ少しょう量りょう生せい産さんを行おこなっている。

  This factory does small-lot production of many product types.

• 売うれない品ひん種しゅを減へらして、在ざい庫こを整せい理りした。

  We reduced the product varieties that were not selling and organized the inventory.

noun

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.

• 分ぶん類るい学がくでは、品ひん種しゅが変へん種しゅより下か位いの階かい級きゅうとして扱あつかわれることがある。

  In taxonomy, a form may be treated as a rank below a variety.

noun

breed; variety; cultivar; kind

Common for plant cultivars, crop varieties, animal breeds, and selected biological varieties, especially in agriculture, horticulture, and breeding contexts.

• このリンゴは寒さむさに強つよい品ひん種しゅです。

  This apple is a variety that is resistant to cold.

• その犬いぬの品ひん種しゅは日本にほんでも人にん気きがある。

  That breed of dog is popular in Japan too.

• 農のう家かは新あたらしい米こめの品ひん種しゅを試し験けん的てきに育そだてている。

  The farmers are experimentally growing a new variety of rice.