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SUPERORDER

Dictionary entry overview: What does superorder mean?

• SUPERORDER (noun)
The noun SUPERORDER has 1 sense:

1. (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass

Familiarity information: SUPERORDER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SUPERORDER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("superorder" is a kind of...):

taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

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