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suborder
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Word definitions for suborder in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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].
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sub-order , 1807 in biology; 1834 in architecture, from sub- + order (n.). Related: Subordinal .\n
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context taxonomy English) A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.
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.