Suborder

What do we mean by suborder?

A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a family. noun

A subdivision of a category termed an order. noun

In botany and zoology, a subdivision of an order; a group subordinate to an order; a superfamily. See family, 6, and order, n., 5. noun

In architecture, a subordinate or secondary order; an order introduced for decoration, or chiefly so, as distinguished from a main order of the structure. noun

In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see rock), a division lower than order and higher than rang. noun

A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family. noun

A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder. noun

(biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order noun

A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.

Words that are spelled similarly to suborder:
suborder, suborner, border, suborned, subworker, subfolder, emborder, sworder, imborder, unorder, suborders, aborder, subsider.

Words that rhyme with suborder:
the border, maharashtra border, shrub border, sub order.

Adjectives that are often used to describe suborder:
separate, other, second, new, same, third, distinct, first, small, extinct, own, largest, single, primitive, large, present, entire, latter, last, whole, next, primate, topographical, special, fourth, architectural, geopolitical, anthropoid, hydromorphic, lowest, peculiar, following, dominant, like, marine, calcimorphic, independent, preceding, andept, intermediate.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective suborder:
passeres, oscines, falcones, pterocletes, anseres, nematocera, balaenicipites, steatornithes, taxon, megachiroptera, ixodides, bucerotes, mealybugs, rhopalocera, phaethontes, characteristics, mesoenatides, sarcoptiformes, striges, mixtochoanites, names, level, suiformes, ascidiae.

Consonant match to suborder:
sub order.

Words that sound like suborder:
suborder, supporter, the border, seaboard, snowboarder, subverter, seabord, support, supporters, sporter, suborned, surfboarder, sworder, stop order, day boarder, keyboarder, superior, snowboard, supports, saboteur, sorter, subvert, snorter, skateboarder, seaport, sideboard, snow board, sobered, sobor, snowboards, suborn, sabir, seabird, aborter, seabirds, signboard, sea bird, sea port, sporer, sea birds, soberer, spored, the bard, sailboard, subter, signboards, sideboards, highboard, wakeboarder, smarter, starter, sparred, so hard, sobar, sartor, gibbard, sabar, sebert, suard, sceptred, sibir, separar, subpart, sea bar, aboard, scored, reporter, cyborg, scorer, sabbat, seabed, abord, sauder, sapporo, cbd, sea bed, seaborg, sebra, gabbard, sapir, cbr, sabet, seaborne, seaports, sawder, laborde, absurder, debord, seabury, sadr, seborrhea, saberi, sea bear, seabeds, seabert, sebald, seaberry, apporter, sabaudia, sapore.