Crossword clues for suborder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suborder \Sub*or"der\, n. (Nat. Hist.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Composit[ae].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context taxonomy English) A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.
WordNet
n. (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order
Usage examples of "suborder".
Strata shade off into suborders and superfamilies, overrunning the borders.
There are classes and subclasses, orders or families, suborders, tribes, sub-tribes, genera, species, and varieties, just as in the world of plants and even, according to their atomic weight, among the elements.
Sephis in its earlier rule in ancient Ourdh had been of a class of demons called Malacostraca, a suborder among the Gammadions.
The owl, incidentally, forms a very common assemblage in nature, and its suborder, Strigiformes, is not closely related to the hawks and eagles.
Some taxonomists employ further subdivisions: tribe, suborder, infraorder, parvorder, and more.
Cal laid out his last shell and spoke into his typer: 'phylum Mollusca, class Pelecypoda, order Taxodonta, suborder Arcacea, family - forget it, I'll have to look it up.
Together, the tree-shrews and the lemurs are placed in the Suborder Prosimii (proh-sim'ee-eye.
Whether they're of the order crocodilia, suborder of their own, or whether they're of the order squamata, suborder lacertilia, family neopoda&mdash.