EGAVE

suborder

About 0.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.
  2. noun A secondary or subsidiary order (purchase request).
  3. noun Synonym of subordering.
  4. verb To arrange in a secondary order.
    The customers were sorted by name and then subordered by number of purchases.

Similar words

subgenus superorder minorder subordo nanorder subtribe infralegion parvclass subfamily subspecies

Often followed by

of is are anthropoidea includes odontoceti serpentes

Word family

suborders

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