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- noun A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a suborder and above a family or superfamily.
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- noun Common misspelling of
infra-order .
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Examples
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Why were they joined by the entire infraorder of caviomorph rodents, including guinea pigs, agoutis, pacas, maras, capybaras, chinchillas and lots of others, a large group of characteristically South American rodents, found nowhere else?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Why were they joined by the entire infraorder of caviomorph rodents, including guinea pigs, agoutis, pacas, maras, capybaras, chinchillas and lots of others, a large group of characteristically South American rodents, found nowhere else?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera.
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A substantially larger number of reads were classified as being derived from the infraorder
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al. 2010
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Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera.
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The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth-largest island in the world, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are endemic to Madagascar. [citation needed] They include the lemur infraorder of primates, the carnivorous fossa, three bird families and six baobab species.
WN.com - Articles related to Do Indian laws apply to Hindu marriage outside country? 2010
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Blind snakes are an often-overlooked infraorder called scolecophidians.
TreeHugger 2010
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The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth-largest island in the world, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are endemic to Madagascar. [citation needed] They include the lemur infraorder of primates, the carnivorous fossa, three bird families and six baobab species.
WN.com - Articles related to Do Indian laws apply to Hindu marriage outside country? 2010
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Blind snakes are an often-overlooked infraorder called scolecophidians.
TreeHugger 2010
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The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth-largest island in the world, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are endemic to Madagascar. [citation needed] They include the lemur infraorder of primates, the carnivorous fossa, three bird families and six baobab species.
WN.com - Articles related to Do Indian laws apply to Hindu marriage outside country? 2010
mollusque commented on the word infraorder
(n): (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an superfamily and below an order.
November 2, 2007