A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class;…
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A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.
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The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an anima…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and ser…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.(biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure; ranked between order and genus
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships esp…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly di…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.Alt. of Monotypic
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.Alt. of Phylogeny
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or trib…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.To raze.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogen…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
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The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their pre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so like those…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: group, intermediate, family, suborder.A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See He…
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