Word Meanings - SUPERFAMILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.

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• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• INTERMEDIATELY
  In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.
• INTERMEDIATE
  Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state , the state or condition of the soul
• GROUP
  A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• SUBORDER
  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 Compositæ.
• GROUPER
  One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper , and the black grouper, or warsaw , both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail .
• GROUPING
  The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• AGROUPMENT
  See AGGROUPMENT
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• LARAMIE GROUP
  An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character.
• POTSDAM GROUP
  A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.
• QUEBEC GROUP
  The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.
• SUBFAMILY
  One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
• COLORADO GROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• AGGROUP
  To bring together in a group; to group. Dryden.