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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Biology A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a family.
- noun A subdivision of a category termed an order.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany and zoology, a subdivision of an order; a group subordinate to an order; a superfamily. See
family , 6, and order, n., 5. - noun In architecture, a subordinate or secondary order; an order introduced for decoration, or chiefly so, as distinguished from a main order of the structure.
- noun In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see
rock ), a division lower than order and higher than rang.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun taxonomy A
taxonomic category beloworder and aboveinfraorder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order
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Examples
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This is not a grasshopper, but rather, a member of the same order, but classified as the suborder Ensifera of Long-Horned Orthoperta, and the family Tettigoniidae of Katydids, and the subfamily Conocephalinae of Coneheads.
What's That Bug? bugman 2010
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The Bible does not say that the rabbit belongs to the suborder of Ruminantia; that would have been a slip.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Camels are now no longer included in the suborder of Ruminantia, but in a separate suborder of Tylopoda, which also chew their food twice.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The Bible does not say that the rabbit belongs to the suborder of Ruminantia; that would have been a slip.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Of course, in "The Speckled Band," we are meant to believe that a snake — deaf, like all of its suborder — could respond to a whistled signal.
A three pipe problem Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Camels are now no longer included in the suborder of Ruminantia, but in a separate suborder of Tylopoda, which also chew their food twice.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The Iguanidae family is only one of about 17 families of the lacertilian suborder; it includes the subfamilies of iguana iguanas (green) and spiny-tailed (black) iguanas which are abundant in the Puerto Vallarta, Mexico area.
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The Iguanidae family is only one of about 17 families of the lacertilian suborder; it includes the subfamilies of iguana iguanas (green) and spiny-tailed (black) iguanas which are abundant in the Puerto Vallarta, Mexico area.
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Iguanas are one of the five generally recognized infraorders of the lacertilian suborder of reptiles which includes all lizards.
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Iguanas are one of the five generally recognized infraorders of the lacertilian suborder of reptiles which includes all lizards.
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Words with the same meaning
- biotype
- blood
- bracket
- branch
- caste
- category
- clan
- class
- division
- estate
- family
- genotype
- genus
- grade
- group
- grouping
- head
- heading
- kin
- kingdom
- label
- level
- order
- phylum
- pigeonhole
- position
- predicament
- race
- rank
- rating
- rubric
- section
- sept
- series
- set
- species
- station
- status
- strain
- stratum
- subclass
- subdivision
- subfamily
- subgenus
- subgroup
- subkingdom
- subspecies
- subtribe
- superclass
- superfamily
- superorder
- superspecies
- title
- tribe
- variety
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