order (noun)
101order Cycadofilicales — noun fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: seed ferns • Syn: ↑Cycadofilicales, ↑Lyginopteridales, ↑order Lyginopteridales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms: ↑Pteridospermopsida, ↑ …
102order Cypriniformes — noun an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi • Syn: ↑Cypriniformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Malacopterygii,… …
103order Decapoda — noun 1. lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns • Syn: ↑Decapoda • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Malacostraca, ↑subclass Malacostraca …
104order Dicranales — noun widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems • Syn: ↑Dicranales • Hypernyms: ↑plant order • Member Holonyms: ↑Bryopsida, ↑class Bryopsida, ↑Musci, ↑ …
105order Dictyoptera — noun in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera • Syn: ↑Dictyoptera • Hypernyms: ↑animal order •… …
106order Dinocerata — noun small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene • Syn: ↑Dinocerata • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Ungulata • Member Meronyms: ↑Uintatheriidae, ↑ …
107order Dinoflagellata — noun in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta • Syn: ↑Dinoflagellata, ↑Cilioflagellata, ↑order Cilioflagellata • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑ …
108order Dinornithiformes — noun a ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand • Syn: ↑Dinornithiformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves • Member Meronyms: ↑ …
109order Diptera — noun a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies • Syn: ↑Diptera • Derivationally related forms: ↑dipterous (for: ↑Diptera) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
110order Discocephali — noun small order of fishes comprising the remoras • Syn: ↑Discocephali • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Acanthopterygii, ↑superorder Acanthopterygii • Member Meronyms: ↑ …
