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Definition of Superorders
1. superorder [n] - See also: superorder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superorders
Literary usage of Superorders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... and catfishes whose origin from the sea is so remote that the orders and
superorders embracing all of these dominant members of the fresh-water fauna, ..."
2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1901)
"The authors of this work have for their object to collect all possible information
concerning the fauna of the superorders of ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1902)
"The authors of this work have for their object to collect all possible information
concerning the fauna of the superorders of Orthoptera and ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1892)
"... arc,ide " in most of the thick-tongued super- orders, but crossing the bone
much behind the anterior border in the slender-tongued superorders and the ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"Instead of this single order (or sub-class) of the old systematists, lie named
four superorders of the Teleostomi or "true fishes," and recognized seven ..."
6. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"In anticipation of such a possibility, the author had at first discarded the
subclass, recognizing the group only as one of the ' superorders ' of the ..."
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