order Arales
— Noun
– English
～ Araceae; Lemnaceae
order Ganoidei
— Noun
– English
～ a group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales
order Anostraca
— Noun
– English
～ small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps
order Loricata
— Noun
– English
～ former name for the order Crocodylia
order Caudata
— Noun
– English
～ salamanders; newts; congo snakes
order Charales
— Noun
– English
～ small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts
order Equisetales
— Noun
– English
～ lower tracheophytes in existence since the Devonian
order Apterygiformes
— Noun
– English
～ a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis
order Isospondyli
— Noun
– English
～ most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon
order
— Noun
– English
～ (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed; "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"
order Ebenales
— Noun
– English
～ trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae
order Ciconiiformes
— Noun
– English
～ 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
order Lagomorpha
— Noun
– English
～ rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia
order of magnitude
— Noun
– English
～ a degree in a continuum of size or quantity; "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"
order Myricales
— Noun
– English
～ coextensive with the family Myricaceae
order Gentianales
— Noun
– English
～ an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae
order of magnitude
— Noun
– English
～ a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10
order Guttiferales
— Noun
– English
～ used in some classifications; coextensive with Parietales