suborder

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ order

Noun

suborder (plural suborders)

1. (taxonomy) A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.

   Synonym: subordo

2. (business) A secondary or subsidiary order (purchase request).
3. Synonym of subordering

Descendants

• → Dutch: suborde

Translations

taxonomic category

• Asturian: suborde m
• Catalan: subordre m
• Dutch: onderorde (nl) f, suborde f
• Finnish: alalahko
• Galician: suborde (gl) f
• Hebrew: תת־סדרה f (tát-sidrá)
• Irish: fo-ord m
• Italian: sottordine (it) m
• Malay:

  Jawi: سوبئوردر (ms)

  Rumi: suborder (ms)

• Manx: fo-oardagh m
• Polish: podrząd (pl) m
• Portuguese: subordem (pt) f
• Spanish: suborden (es) m
• Swedish: underordning (sv) c
• Tagalog: kubsunday

Verb

suborder (third-person singular simple present suborders, present participle subordering, simple past and past participle subordered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in a secondary order.

   The customers were sorted by name and then subordered by number of purchases.

Anagrams

• Brodeurs, bordures, bourders