Suborder

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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
     Compositae.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suborder
       n : (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "suborder":
     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