(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:32:52

Sub*or"der (?), n. Nat. Hist.

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; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae.

 

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