English > animal order: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | The order of animals. |
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| Member of | Animalia, kingdom Animalia, animal kingdom | taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals |
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| Narrower | Acanthopterygii, superorder Acanthopterygii | teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays |
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| Acarina, order Acarina | mites and ticks |
| Actiniaria, order Actiniaria, Actinaria, order Actinaria | sea anemones |
| Actinomycetales, order Actinomycetales | filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria |
| Actinomyxidia, order Actinomyxidia | parasites of worms |
| Aepyorniformes, order Aepyorniformes | huge extinct flightless birds |
| Alcyonacea, suborder Alcyonacea | Comprising the soft corals |
| Alcyonaria, order Alcyonaria | corals and sea anemones having eight branches |
| Amoebida, order Amoebida, Amoebina, order Amoebina | The animal order including amoebas |
| Amphipoda, order Amphipoda | small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans |
| Anacanthini, order Anacanthini | at least partially equivalent to the order Gadiformes in some classifications |
| Anaspida, order Anaspida | Extinct order of jawless vertebrates |
| Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes | elongate fishes with pelvic ... / pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced |
| Anisoptera, suborder Anisoptera | dragonflies |
| Anoplura, order Anoplura | sucking lice |
| Anostraca, order Anostraca | small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace |
| Anseres, suborder Anseres | Used in some especially older classifications |
| Anseriformes, order Anseriformes | ducks |
| Anthropoidea, suborder Anthropoidea | monkeys |
| Apodiformes, order Apodiformes | swifts |
| Apterygiformes, order Apterygiformes | A ratite bird order |
| Araneae, order Araneae, Araneida, order Araneida | spiders |
| Artiodactyla, order Artiodactyla | 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 |
| Belemnoidea, order Belemnoidea | Order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas |
| Berycomorphi, order Berycomorphi | An order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii |
| Blattodea, suborder Blattodea, Blattaria, suborder Blattaria | cockroaches |
| Blennioidea, suborder Blennioidea | blennies |
| Brachyura, suborder Brachyura | An order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface |
| Branchiura, order Branchiura | copepods with suctorial mouthparts |
| Caprimulgiformes, order Caprimulgiformes | goatsuckers |
| Carnivora, order Carnivora | cats |
| Carnosaura, suborder Carnosaura | largest carnivorous land animals ever known |
| Casuariiformes, order Casuariiformes | A ratite bird order |
| Ceratopsia, suborder Ceratopsia | horned dinosaurs |
| Cestida, order Cestida | ctenophore having short tentacles |
| Cetacea, order Cetacea | An order of Eutheria |
| Charadrii, suborder Charadrii | shorebirds |
| Charadriiformes, order Charadriiformes | large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters |
| Chelonethida, order Chelonethida, Pseudoscorpionida, order Pseudoscorpionida, Pseudoscorpiones, order Pseudoscorpiones | false scorpions |
| Chelonia, order Chelonia, Testudinata, order Testudinata, Testudines, order Testudines | tortoises and turtles |
| Chiroptera, order Chiroptera | An old order dating to early Eocene |
| Ciconiiformes, order Ciconiiformes | Order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet |
| Clamatores, suborder Clamatores | Used in some classification systems |
| Coccidia, order Coccidia | An order in the subclass Telosporidia |
| Coleoptera, order Coleoptera | beetles |
| Collembola, order Collembola | minute wingless arthropods |
| Columbiformes, order Columbiformes | sand grouse |
| Conodonta, order Conodonta, Conodontophorida, order Conodontophorida | Extinct order of primitive vertebrates |
| Coraciiformes, order Coraciiformes | rollers |
| Crocodylia, order Crocodylia, Crocodilia, order Crocodilia | crocodiles |
| Cuculiformes, order Cuculiformes | cuckoos |
| Cyclostomata, order Cyclostomata | Primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate |
| Cydippida, order Cydippida, Cydippidea, order Cydippidea, Cydippea, order Cydippea | ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles |
| Cypriniformes, order Cypriniformes | An order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes |
| Decapoda, order Decapoda | lobsters |
| Decapoda, order Decapoda | squids and cuttlefishes |
| Dermaptera, order Dermaptera | earwigs and a few related forms |
| Dermoptera, order Dermoptera | flying lemurs |
| Dictyoptera, order Dictyoptera | In some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids) |
| Dinocerata, order Dinocerata | small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene |
| Dinoflagellata, order Dinoflagellata, Cilioflagellata, order Cilioflagellata | In some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista |
| Dinornithiformes, order Dinornithiformes | A ratite bird order |
| Diptera, order Diptera | A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths |
| Discocephali, order Discocephali | small order of fishes comprising the remoras |
| Edentata, order Edentata | Order of mammals having few or no teeth including |
| Embioptera, order Embioptera, Embiodea, order Embiodea | web spinners |
| Ephemeroptera, order Ephemeroptera, Ephemerida, order Ephemerida | mayflies |
| Eubacteriales, order Eubacteriales | One of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria |
| Euphausiacea, order Euphausiacea | small commonly luminescent crustaceans |
| Euronithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, euronithopod, Ornithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda | widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) |
| Eurylaimi, suborder Eurylaimi | broadbills |
| Eurypterida, order Eurypterida | Extinct aquatic arthropods of the Paleozoic |
| Exocycloida, order Exocycloida | Flat sea urchins |
| Falconiformes, order Falconiformes | chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe |
| Foraminifera, order Foraminifera | foraminifers |
| Fucales, order Fucales | coextensive with the family Fucaceae |
| Gadiformes, order Gadiformes | cods, haddocks, grenadiers |
| Galliformes, order Galliformes | pheasants |
| Ganoidei, order Ganoidei | A group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales |
| Gaviiformes, order Gaviiformes | large aquatic birds |
| Geophilomorpha, order Geophilomorpha | small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones / stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs |
| Gorgonacea, suborder Gorgonacea, Gorgoniacea, suborder Gorgoniacea | red corals and sea fans |
| Gregarinida, order Gregarinida | An order in the subclass Telosporidia |
| Gruiformes, order Gruiformes | inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food |
| Gymnophiona, order Gymnophiona | An order of amphibians including caecilians |
| Haemosporidia, order Haemosporidia | An order in the subclass Telosporidia |
| Haplosporidia, order Haplosporidia | An order in the subclass Acnidosporidia |
| Heliozoa, order Heliozoa | Mostly freshwater protozoa |
| Hemiptera, order Hemiptera | plant bugs |
| Heteroptera, suborder Heteroptera | true bugs |
| Heterosomata, order Heterosomata, order Pleuronectiformes | flatfishes |
| Heterostraci, suborder Heterostraci | Extinct group of armored jawless ... / jawless fishes or fish-like vertebrate |
| Homoptera, suborder Homoptera | plant lice (aphids) |
| Hymenoptera, order Hymenoptera | An order of insects including |
| Hypermastigina, order Hypermastigina | cellulose-producing flagellates |
| Hyracoidea, order Hyracoidea | hyraxes and some extinct animals |
| Hystricomorpha, suborder Hystricomorpha | An order of rodents including |
| Ichthyosauria, order Ichthyosauria | Extinct marine reptiles |
| Ictodosauria, order Ictodosauria | Extinct reptiles of the later Triassic period |
| Insectivora, order Insectivora | shrews |
| Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird, percher | A bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches) |
| Isopoda, order Isopoda | woodlice |
| Isoptera, order Isoptera | Order of social insects that live in colonies, including |
| Isospondyli, order Isospondyli | Most primitive teleost fishes |
| Labyrinthodontia, superorder Labyrinthodontia, Labyrinthodonta, superorder Labyrinthodonta | Extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth |
| Lagomorpha, order Lagomorpha | rabbits |
| Lari, suborder Lari | gulls |
| Lemuroidea, suborder Lemuroidea | Lemuridae |
| Lepidoptera, order Lepidoptera | moths and butterflies |
| Limicolae, suborder Limicolae | Term used in some classifications for migratory shorebirds |
| Lipotyphla, suborder Lipotyphla | moles |
| Lobata, order Lobata | ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage / stage |
| Loricata, order Loricata | former name for the order Crocodylia |
| Madreporaria, order Madreporaria | stony corals |
| Malacopterygii, superorder Malacopterygii | An extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays |
| Mallophaga, order Mallophaga | biting lice |
| Maniraptora, suborder Maniraptora | Advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds |
| Manteodea, suborder Manteodea | mantises |
| Mantophasmatodea, order mantophasmatodea | An order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region |
| Marginocephalia, suborder Marginocephalia, marginocephalian | Includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs |
| Marsupialia, order Marsupialia | coextensive with the subclass Metatheria |
| Mecoptera, order Mecoptera | An order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip |
| Megachiroptera, suborder Megachiroptera | fruit bats |
| Megaloptera, suborder Megaloptera | In some classifications considered a separate order |
| Menotyphla, suborder Menotyphla | Elephant shrews |
| Menurae, suborder Menurae | lyrebirds and scrubbirds |
| Microchiroptera, suborder Microchiroptera | Most of the bats in the world |
| Monotremata, order Monotremata | coextensive with the subclass Prototheria |
| Mugiloidea, suborder Mugiloidea | fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins |
| Myaceae, order Myaceae | clams |
| Mycoplasmatales, order Mycoplasmatales | coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae |
| Mycrosporidia, order Mycrosporidia | An order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
| Myomorpha, suborder Myomorpha | true rats and mice and related rodents |
| Mysidacea, order Mysidacea | opossum shrimp |
| Mysticeti, suborder Mysticeti | baleen whales |
| Myxiniformes, suborder Myxiniformes, Hyperotreta, suborder Hyperotreta, Myxinoidei, Myxinoidea, suborder Myxinoidei | hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys |
| Myxosporidia, order Myxosporidia | An order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
| Natantia, suborder Natantia | shrimp |
| Nematocera, suborder Nematocera | mosquitoes |
| Neuroptera, order Neuroptera | An order of insects including |
| Nothosauria, suborder Nothosauria | A suborder of Sauropterygia |
| Notostraca, order Notostraca | small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace |
| Nudibranchia, order Nudibranchia | Comprising numerous marine gastropod mollusks lacking a shell in the adult state and usually having a body like a slug |
| Octopoda, order Octopoda | octopuses and paper nautilus |
| Odonata, order Odonata | dragonflies and damselflies |
| Odontoceti, suborder Odontoceti | toothed whales |
| Ornithischia, order Ornithischia | Extinct terrestrial / terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises |
| Ornithomimida, suborder Ornithomimida | lightly built medium-size theropods |
| Orthoptera, order Orthoptera | grasshoppers and locusts |
| Oscines, suborder Oscines, Passeres, suborder Passeres | Two names for the suborder of typical songbirds |
| Osteoglossiformes, Order Osteoglossiformes | teleost fish with bony tongues |
| Osteostraci, suborder Osteostraci, Cephalaspida, suborder Cephalaspida | Extinct group of armored fish-like vertebrates |
| Ostracodermi, order Ostracodermi | Extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates |
| Otides, suborder Otides | terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia |
| Passeriformes, order Passeriformes | largest order of birds comprising about half the known species |
| Pectinibranchia, order Pectinibranchia | large order of gastropods comprising univalve mollusks that have a single gill resembling a comb |
| Pediculati, order Pediculati | anglers and batfishes |
| Pedipalpi, order Pedipalpi, Uropygi, order Uropygi | whip scorpions |
| Pelecaniformes, order Pelecaniformes | pelicans |
| Pelycosauria, order Pelycosauria | edaphosaurus |
| Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi | One of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water |
| Percoidea, suborder Percoidea | In some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder |
| Perissodactyla, order Perissodactyla | nonruminant ungulates |
| Petromyzoniformes, suborder Petromyzoniformes, Hyperoartia, suborder Hyperoartia | lampreys as distinguished from hagfishes |
| Phalangida, order Phalangida, Opiliones, order Opiliones | harvestmen |
| Phasmida, order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, order Phasmatodea | In some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera |
| Pholidota, order Pholidota | pangolins |
| Picariae, order Picariae | Term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes |
| Piciformes, order Piciformes | woodpeckers |
| Pinnipedia, suborder Pinnipedia | seals |
| Platyctenea, order Platyctenea | An order of Tentaculata |
| Plecoptera, order Plecoptera | stoneflies |
| Plectognathi, order Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformes | boxfishes |
| Plesiosauria, suborder Plesiosauria | Any of the plesiosaurs |
| Podicipitiformes, order Podicipitiformes, Podicipediformes, order Podicipediformes, Colymbiformes, order Colymbiformes | grebes |
| Polymastigina, order Polymastigina | small usually parasitic flagellates |
| Primates, order Primates | An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings |
| Proboscidea, order Proboscidea | An order of animals including elephants and mammoths |
| Procellariiformes, order Procellariiformes | petrels |
| Prosauropoda, suborder Prosauropoda | The earliest known dinosaurs |
| Prosimii, suborder Prosimii | not used in all classifications |
| Protura, order Protura | minute wingless arthropods |
| Pseudomonadales, order Pseudomonadales | One of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria |
| Psittaciformes, order Psittaciformes | An order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets |
| Psocoptera, order Psocoptera, Corrodentia, order Corrodentia | An order of insects |
| Pterosauria, order Pterosauria | Extinct flying reptiles |
| Pulmonata, order Pulmonata | large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails |
| Pycnogonida, order Pycnogonida | sea spiders |
| Radiolaria, order Radiolaria | marine protozoa |
| Rajiformes, order Rajiformes, Batoidei, order Batoidei | fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies |
| Raptores, order Raptores | Term used in former classifications |
| Ratitae, superorder Ratitae | Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders |
| Reptantia, suborder Reptantia | lobsters |
| Rheiformes, order Rheiformes | A ratite bird order |
| Rhynchocephalia, order Rhynchocephalia | tuataras |
| Rickettsiales, order Rickettsiales | pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms |
| Rodentia, order Rodentia | small gnawing animals |
| Ruminantia, suborder Ruminantia | cattle |
| Salientia, order Salientia, Anura, order Anura, Batrachia, order Batrachia | frogs, toads, tree toads |
| Sarcosporidia, order Sarcosporidia | imperfectly known parasites of the muscles of vertebrates |
| Sauria, suborder Sauria, Lacertilia, suborder Lacertilia | true lizards |
| Saurischia, order Saurischia | Extinct terrestrial / terrestrial reptiles |
| Sauropoda, suborder Sauropoda | Any of the sauropod dinosaurs |
| Sauropodomorpha, suborder Sauropodomorpha | gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having huge bodies with long necks and small heads |
| Sauropterygia, order Sauropterygia | Extinct marine reptiles |
| Scandentia, order Scandentia | A small order comprising only the tree shrews |
| Schizopoda | In former classifications a division of Malacostraca |
| Sciuromorpha, suborder Sciuromorpha | large more or less primitive rodents |
| Scleroparei, order Scleroparei | scorpionfishes |
| Scombroidea, suborder Scombroidea | mackerels |
| Scorpaenoidea, suborder Scorpaenoidea | mail-cheeked fishes |
| Scorpionida, order Scorpionida | true scorpions |
| Serpentes, suborder Serpentes, Ophidia, suborder Ophidia | snakes |
| Siluriformes, order Siluriformes | An order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes |
| Siphonaptera, order Siphonaptera | fleas |
| Siphonophora, order Siphonophora | marine colonial hydrozoans |
| Sirenia, order Sirenia | An animal order including |
| Solenichthyes, order Solenichthyes | bellows fishes |
| Solenogastres, order Solenogastres, Aplacophora, order Aplacophora | An order of Amphineura |
| Spatangoida, order Spatangoida | heart-shaped sea urchins |
| Sphenisciformes, order Sphenisciformes | penguins |
| Spirochaetales, order Spirochaetales | Higher bacteria |
| Squamata, order Squamata | diapsid reptiles |
| Stegocephalia, order Stegocephalia | In former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia |
| Stereospondyli, order Stereospondyli | formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia |
| Stomatopoda, order Stomatopoda | mantis shrimps |
| Strepsirhini, suborder Strepsirhini | In some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs |
| Strigiformes, order Strigiformes | owls |
| Struthioniformes, order Struthioniformes | A ratite bird order |
| Synentognathi, order Synentognathi | Order of fishes having spineless fins |
| Tarsioidea, suborder Tarsioidea | In some classifications assigned to the suborder Prosimii |
| Temnospondyli, order Temnospondyli | formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia |
| Testacea, order Testacea | testacean rhizopods |
| Thecodontia, order Thecodontia | Extinct terrestrial / terrestrial reptiles having teeth set in sockets |
| Therapsida, order Therapsida | Extinct mammal-like reptiles found inhabiting all continents from the mid Permian to late Triassic |
| Theropoda, suborder Theropoda | carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs |
| Thyreophora, suborder Thyreophora, thyreophoran | armored dinosaurs |
| Thysanoptera, order Thysanoptera | thrips |
| Thysanura, order Thysanura | firebrats |
| Tinamiformes, order Tinamiformes | coextensive with the family Tinamidae |
| Torpediniformes, order Torpediniformes | rays with bodies shaped like torpedoes |
| Trichoptera, order Trichoptera | An order of insects consisting of caddis flies |
| Trogoniformes, order Trogoniformes | trogons |
| Tubulidentata, order Tubulidentata | An order of Eutheria |
| Tyranni, suborder Tyranni | New World flycatchers |
| Urodella, order Urodella, Caudata, order Caudata | salamanders |
| Xenarthra, suborder Xenarthra | armadillos |
| Xiphosura, order Xiphosura | horseshoe crabs and extinct forms |
| Zeomorphi, order Zeomorphi | dories |
| Zygnematales, order Zygnematales, Zygnemales, order Zygnemales | pond scums |
| Zygoptera, suborder Zygoptera | damselflies |
| order Myxobacteria, Myxobacterales, order Myxobacterales, Myxobacteriales, order Myxobacteriales | An order of higher bacteria |
| suborder Ceratosaura | Primitive saurischian dinosaurs |
| suborder Pachycephalosaurus | boneheaded dinosaurs |
| Broader | order | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families |
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| Spanish | animales |
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| Catalan | animals, ordre d'animals |
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