Synonyms and Antonyms of animal order

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families (noun.group)

one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms; some are motile; in some classifications considere more.. one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms; some are motile; in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes (noun.animal)

one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella; some more.. one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella; some contain photosynthetic pigments (noun.animal)

pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms (noun.animal)

coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae (noun.animal)

filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria (noun.animal)

an order of higher bacteria (noun.animal)

higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms (noun.animal)

mostly freshwater protozoa (noun.animal)

marine protozoa (noun.animal)

the animal order including amoebas (noun.animal)

foraminifers (noun.animal)

testacean rhizopods (noun.animal)

coextensive with the family Fucaceae (noun.animal)

pond scums; desmids (noun.animal)

in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta (noun.animal)

cellulose-producing flagellates (noun.animal)

small usually parasitic flagellates (noun.animal)

an order in the subclass Telosporidia (noun.animal)

an order in the subclass Telosporidia (noun.animal)

an order in the subclass Telosporidia (noun.animal)

imperfectly known parasites of the muscles of vertebrates (noun.animal)

an order in the subclass Acnidosporidia (noun.animal)

parasites of worms (noun.animal)

an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia (noun.animal)

an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia (noun.animal)

an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays (noun.animal)

an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi (noun.animal)

an order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii (noun.animal)

dories (noun.animal)

bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mo more.. bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout (noun.animal)

extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear (noun.animal)

extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fish-like vertebrate; taxonomy is not clear (noun.animal)

extinct group of armored fish-like vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear (noun.animal)

extinct order of jawless vertebrates (noun.animal)

extinct order of primitive vertebrates; the precise taxonomy is not clear; in some classifications considered a separate phylum (noun.animal)

primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate: lampreys; hagfishes (noun.animal)

lampreys as distinguished from hagfishes (noun.animal)

hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys (noun.animal)

rays with bodies shaped like torpedoes (noun.animal)

fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes (noun.animal)

used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders (noun.animal)

a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward (noun.animal)

a ratite bird order: cassowaries and emus (noun.animal)

a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis (noun.animal)

a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas (noun.animal)

huge extinct flightless birds: elephant birds (noun.animal)

a ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand (noun.animal)

a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists (noun.animal)

largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four subo more.. largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres (noun.animal)

two names for the suborder of typical songbirds (noun.animal)

lyrebirds and scrubbirds (noun.animal)

broadbills (noun.animal)

New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers (noun.animal)

used in some classification systems; a suborder or superfamily nearly coextensive with suborder Tyranni; Passeriformes having relatively simple vocal more.. used in some classification systems; a suborder or superfamily nearly coextensive with suborder Tyranni; Passeriformes having relatively simple vocal organs and little power of song; clamatorial birds (noun.animal)

term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes (noun.animal)

chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures (noun.animal)

owls (noun.animal)

salamanders; newts; congo snakes (noun.animal)

frogs, toads, tree toads (noun.animal)

an order of amphibians including caecilians (noun.animal)

extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through more.. extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic (noun.animal)

formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; amphibia having vertebrae whose component elements are fused into a single piece (noun.animal)

in former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia (noun.animal)

formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; large Carboniferous and Permian amphibians having vertebrae in which some elements remain separate (noun.animal)

tortoises and turtles (noun.animal)

tuataras; extinct forms from middle Triassic (noun.animal)

diapsid reptiles: snakes and lizards (noun.animal)

true lizards; including chameleons and geckos (noun.animal)

crocodiles; alligators; caimans; gavials (noun.animal)

former name for the order Crocodylia (noun.animal)

extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-b more.. extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods) (noun.animal)

armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs (noun.animal)

includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs (noun.animal)

boneheaded dinosaurs; late Cretaceous (noun.animal)

horned dinosaurs (noun.animal)

widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) (noun.animal)

extinct terrestrial reptiles: theropods (carnivorous); sauropods (herbivorous) (noun.animal)

gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having huge bodies with long necks and small heads: Prosauropoda and Sauropoda (apatosaurus, diplodocus and titanosaurs more.. gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having huge bodies with long necks and small heads: Prosauropoda and Sauropoda (apatosaurus, diplodocus and titanosaurs) (noun.animal)

the earliest known dinosaurs (noun.animal)

any of the sauropod dinosaurs (noun.animal)

carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs; Jurassic and Cretaceous (noun.animal)

primitive saurischian dinosaurs (noun.animal)

largest carnivorous land animals ever known (noun.animal)

lightly built medium-size theropods (noun.animal)

advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds (noun.animal)

extinct mammal-like reptiles found inhabiting all continents from the mid Permian to late Triassic (noun.animal)

extinct reptiles of the later Triassic period (noun.animal)

edaphosaurus; dimetrodon (noun.animal)

extinct flying reptiles: pterosaurs (noun.animal)

extinct terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets; of the late Permian to Triassic (noun.animal)

extinct marine reptiles: ichthyosaurs (noun.animal)

extinct marine reptiles: plesiosaurs; nothosaurs (noun.animal)

any of the plesiosaurs (noun.animal)

a suborder of Sauropterygia (noun.animal)

snakes (noun.animal)

harvestmen (noun.animal)

true scorpions (noun.animal)

false scorpions (noun.animal)

whip scorpions (noun.animal)

spiders (noun.animal)

mites and ticks (noun.animal)

small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs (noun.animal)

sea spiders (noun.animal)

horseshoe crabs and extinct forms (noun.animal)

extinct aquatic arthropods of the Paleozoic (noun.animal)

pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins (noun.animal)

coextensive with the family Tinamidae (noun.animal)

sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires (noun.animal)

an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets (noun.animal)

cuckoos; touracos; etc. (noun.animal)

rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies (noun.animal)

term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes (noun.animal)

swifts; hummingbirds (noun.animal)

goatsuckers; frogmouths; oilbirds (noun.animal)

woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans (noun.animal)

trogons (noun.animal)

ducks; geese; swans; screamers (noun.animal)

used in some especially older classifications; coextensive with the family Anatidae (noun.animal)

coextensive with the subclass Prototheria (noun.animal)

coextensive with the subclass Metatheria (noun.animal)

shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs (noun.animal)

moles; hedgehogs; true shrews (noun.animal)

elephant shrews; tree shrews (noun.animal)

marine colonial hydrozoans (noun.animal)

sea anemones (noun.animal)

corals and sea anemones having eight branches (noun.animal)

comprising the soft corals (noun.animal)

red corals and sea fans (noun.animal)

stony corals (noun.animal)

ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles (noun.animal)

an order of Tentaculata (noun.animal)

ctenophore having short tentacles; one family (noun.animal)

ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage; body compressed vertically having two large oral lobes and four pointed processes (noun.animal)

comprising numerous marine gastropod mollusks lacking a shell in the adult state and usually having a body like a slug (noun.animal)

large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails (noun.animal)

large order of gastropods comprising univalve mollusks that have a single gill resembling a comb (noun.animal)

an order of Amphineura (noun.animal)

clams (noun.animal)

octopuses and paper nautilus (noun.animal)

squids and cuttlefishes (noun.animal)

order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas (noun.animal)

an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface (noun.animal)

lobsters; crabs (noun.animal)

shrimp; prawns; etc. (noun.animal)

in former classifications a division of Malacostraca; superseded by the orders Mysidacea and Euphausiacea (noun.animal)

small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill (noun.animal)

opossum shrimp (noun.animal)

mantis shrimps (noun.animal)

woodlice (noun.animal)

small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp (noun.animal)

small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps (noun.animal)

small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace (noun.animal)

copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes (noun.animal)

order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; s more.. order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises (noun.animal)

inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards (noun.animal)

terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia: bustards (noun.animal)

large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life (noun.animal)

shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews (noun.animal)

term used in some classifications for migratory shorebirds; coextensive with the Charadrii (noun.animal)

gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers (noun.animal)

large aquatic birds: loons and some extinct forms (noun.animal)

grebes (noun.animal)

pelicans; frigate birds; gannets; cormorants (noun.animal)

penguins (noun.animal)

petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels (noun.animal)

an order of Eutheria (noun.animal)

baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks (noun.animal)

toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales (noun.animal)

an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow (noun.animal)

cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia (noun.animal)

seals; sea lions; walruses (noun.animal)

an order of Eutheria (noun.animal)

an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats) (noun.animal)

fruit bats (noun.animal)

most of the bats in the world; all bats except fruit bats insectivorous bats (noun.animal)

an order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region (noun.animal)

an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip (noun.animal)

minute wingless arthropods: springtails (noun.animal)

minute wingless arthropods: telsontails (noun.animal)

beetles (noun.animal)

web spinners (noun.animal)

sucking lice (noun.animal)

biting lice (noun.animal)

fleas (noun.animal)

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 (noun.animal)

mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies (noun.animal)

an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc. (noun.animal)

order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota (noun.animal)

grasshoppers and locusts; crickets (noun.animal)

in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects (noun.animal)

in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsu more.. 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 (noun.animal)

cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order (noun.animal)

mantises; in former classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera (noun.animal)

plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas) (noun.animal)

true bugs (noun.animal)

plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects (noun.animal)

an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice (noun.animal)

mayflies (noun.animal)

stoneflies (noun.animal)

an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fish flies; mantispids; spongeflies (noun.animal)

in some classifications considered a separate order: alderflies; dobsonflies; snake flies (noun.animal)

dragonflies and damselflies (noun.animal)

dragonflies (noun.animal)

damselflies (noun.animal)

an order of insects consisting of caddis flies (noun.animal)

firebrats; silverfish; machilids (noun.animal)

thrips (noun.animal)

earwigs and a few related forms (noun.animal)

moths and butterflies (noun.animal)

flat sea urchins (noun.animal)

heart-shaped sea urchins (noun.animal)

rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia (noun.animal)

small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis (noun.animal)

true rats and mice and related rodents (noun.animal)

an order of rodents including: porcupines; guinea pigs; chinchillas; etc. (noun.animal)

large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc. (noun.animal)

small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene (noun.animal)

hyraxes and some extinct animals (noun.animal)

nonruminant ungulates: horses; tapirs; rhinoceros; extinct forms (noun.animal)

an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an ev more.. an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes (noun.animal)

cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels (noun.animal)

order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos (noun.animal)

armadillos; American anteaters; sloths (noun.animal)

pangolins; in some former classifications included in the order Edentata (noun.animal)

an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings (noun.animal)

monkeys; apes; hominids (noun.animal)

a small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosim more.. a small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosimii) or true insectivores (and included in the order Insectivora) (noun.animal)

not used in all classifications; in some classifications considered coextensive with the Lemuroidea; in others includes both Lemuroidea and Tarsioidea (noun.animal)

Lemuridae; Lorisidae; Daubentoniidae; Indriidae; used in some classifications instead of Prosimii; in others considered a subdivision of Prosimii (noun.animal)

in some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs (noun.animal)

in some classifications assigned to the suborder Prosimii (noun.animal)

flying lemurs (noun.animal)

an order of animals including elephants and mammoths (noun.animal)

an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes (noun.animal)

cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini (noun.animal)

at least partially equivalent to the order Gadiformes in some classifications (noun.animal)

elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced (noun.animal)

most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon (noun.animal)

teleost fish with bony tongues (noun.animal)

anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to more.. anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth (noun.animal)

order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks (noun.animal)

teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays (noun.animal)

one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna (noun.animal)

in some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder (noun.animal)

small order of fishes comprising the remoras (noun.animal)

fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins: families Mugilidae; Atherinidae; Sphyraenidae (noun.animal)

blennies; butterfishes; gunnels (noun.animal)

mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes (noun.animal)

a group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales (noun.animal)

scorpionfishes; sculpins; gurnards; greenlings; flying gurnards (noun.animal)

mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards (noun.animal)

boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers (noun.animal)

flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes (noun.animal)

taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals (noun.animal)