Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a class or its subdivisions and above an order.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In natural history, a classificatory group next above the order but below the class. It may be a combination of orders, or a single order contrasting with such a combination; it is not well distinguished from
subclass .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun taxonomy A
taxonomic category belowsubclass and aboveorder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ancestral elephant shrews were members of a “superorder” or “cohort” of beasts called Afrotheria that evolved in Africa more than 100 million years ago.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Since Linnaeus, taxonomists have added the categories phylum and family, along with numerous subdivisions such as subclass, superorder, subfamily, subspecies, and others.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Since Linnaeus, taxonomists have added the categories phylum and family, along with numerous subdivisions such as subclass, superorder, subfamily, subspecies, and others.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Since Linnaeus, taxonomists have added the categories phylum and family, along with numerous subdivisions such as subclass, superorder, subfamily, subspecies, and others.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Since Linnaeus, taxonomists have added the categories phylum and family, along with numerous subdivisions such as subclass, superorder, subfamily, subspecies, and others.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The study also bolsters recent research suggesting that bats are more closely related on the tree of evolution to horses, dogs, cows, moles and dolphins -- all members of the superorder Laurasiatheria -- than humans, monkeys, flying lemurs and mice, which belong to the Euarchontoglires superorder.
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"We certainly do not want such a superorder, and if there is to be one large order, its price should not exceed some Kc40bn or Kc50bn," Proubek said.
Prague Monitor 2010
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Although many have been found in the fossil record, paleontologists expect that they have barely scratched the surface of the vast superorder that the dinosaurs encompassed.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] MarcusDecatur 2010
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But I trust lessons have been learned, and the gameday thread and recap will thus be uncontaminated by creatures of the superorder Elopomorpha.
AZ Snakepit Jim McLennan 2010
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Although many have been found in the fossil record, paleontologists expect that they have barely scratched the surface of the vast superorder that the dinosaurs encompassed.
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