Definition of Order Testacea

1. Noun. Testacean rhizopods.

Exact synonyms: Testacea
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Rhizopoda, Subclass Rhizopoda
Member holonyms: Testacean, Arcellidae, Family Arcellidae, Genus Difflugia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Testacea

order Spatangoida
order Sphaeriales
order Sphaerocarpales
order Sphagnales
order Sphenisciformes
order Spirochaetales
order Squamata
order Stegocephalia
order Stereospondyli
order Stomatopoda
order Strigiformes
order Struthioniformes
order Synentognathi
order Taxales
order Temnospondyli
order Testacea (current term)
order Testudinata
order Testudines
order Tetraodontiformes
order Thecodontia
order Therapsida
order Thymelaeales
order Thysanoptera
order Thysanura
order Tinamiformes
order Torpediniformes
order Tremellales
order Trichoptera
order Trogoniformes
order Tuberales

Literary usage of Order Testacea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy: Comprising Such Terms in Botany by William Humble (1843)
"... It.) Belonging to the order testacea ; having a strong thick shell, the calcareous portion of which consists of carbonate of lime. ..."

2. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake (1851)
"... in the class vermes, and the species bearing shells in the order testacea of the same class. The 10th edition, which appeared in 1758, one year after ..."

3. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"They do not thrive with us excepting in a stove. CARDIUM, in natural history, the cockle, a genus of worms of the order Testacea ..."

4. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1804)
"If, therefore, the genus Sabella is admissible in the order Testacea, its several animal inhabitants, like those of real shells, would become a secondary ..."

5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"... in the class vermes, and the species bearing shells in tiie order testacea of the same class. The 10th edition, which appeared in 1758, one year after ..."

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