Hypertext Webster Gateway: "suborder"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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
Composit[ae].

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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


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