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SUBORDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does suborder mean?
• SUBORDER (noun)
The noun SUBORDER has 1 sense:
1. (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order
Familiarity information: SUBORDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("suborder" is a kind of...):
taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Holonyms ("suborder" is a member of...):
order ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families)
Context examples
A taxonomic suborder of Gram positive, soil borne bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria that includes the genera Tropheryma and Ruania, among others.
(Micrococcineae, NCI Thesaurus)
A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a suborder and above a family.
(Infraorder, NCI Thesaurus)
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