Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the classificatory rank or taxonomic value of a suborder; subordinate to an order, as a group or division of animals; of or pertaining to a suborder.
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Thus, among the primates, a superfamily distinction means that about one-quarter of the polynucleotide sequences are different, half are different for subordinal separation, and about three - quarters for ordinal distinction.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART A. KAUFFMAN 1968
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