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Definition of Suborders
1. suborder [n] - See also: suborder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborders
Literary usage of Suborders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guide to the Study of Insects: And a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"There is nothing like a linear scries in the animal kingdom, bnt rather a net-work.
The higher scries of suborders form more of a linear scries than the ..."
2. Guide to the Study of Insects, and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"Thé following diagram shows, in a rude way, the relative rank and affinities of
the seven suborders, and of the two series of Six-footed Insects. ..."
3. The Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1853)
"SUBCLASSES bear the same relation to classes that suborders do to orders. ...
KINGDOMS, Series, CLASSES, Subclasses, ORDERS, or FAMILIES, suborders, Tribes, ..."
4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1905)
"... WITH REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN AND RELATIONSHIPS OF THE suborders, SUPERFAMILIES,
AND FAMILIES OF TESTUDINES. By OLIVER P. HAY.) The group of turtles called ..."
5. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"... Table of suborders Beak unjointed, fleshy 2 Beak jointed, hard and horny i
i—Wings when present of the same thickness ..."
6. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"... Table of suborders Beak unjointed, fleshy 2 Beak jointed, hard and horny i
i—Wings when present of the same thickness throughout and held usually in a ..."
7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"... founded upon the structure, manner of attachment, and mode of opening of the
sporangia. By far the largest of these suborders is the ..."
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