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ORDER SCANDENTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Scandentia mean? 

ORDER SCANDENTIA (noun)
  The noun ORDER SCANDENTIA has 1 sense:

1. a small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosimii) or true insectivores (and included in the order Insectivora)play

  Familiarity information: ORDER SCANDENTIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ORDER SCANDENTIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosimii) or true insectivores (and included in the order Insectivora)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Scandentia; Scandentia

Hypernyms ("order Scandentia" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Scandentia"):

family Tupaiidae; Tupaiidae (tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates)

Holonyms ("order Scandentia" is a member of...):

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)


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