Suborder

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Biology A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking between an order and a family.
  • n. A subdivision of a category termed an order.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany and zoology, a subdivision of an order; a group subordinate to an order; a superfamily. See family, 6, and order, n., 5.
  • n. In architecture, a subordinate or secondary order; an order introduced for decoration, or chiefly so, as distinguished from a main order of the structure.
  • n. In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see rock), a division lower than order and higher than rang.
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  • n. (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    taxonomic category    taxonomic group    taxon   
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