Examples of suborder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The soils in my new neighborhood seem to be Alfisols, likely in the Udalfs suborder. — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 14 Oct. 2021 As any entomologist would tell you, a gnat is one of many species of tiny, flying insects—biting and non-biting—in the dipterid suborder Nematocera, especially those in the families Mycetophilidae, Anisopodidae and Sciaridae. — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 23 July 2021 Fikáček placed the beetle within the Myxophaga suborder, several evolutionary branches removed from its Myxophaga cousins that exist today. — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2021 Ankylosaurus magniventris is an ankylosaur—a suborder of four-legged, armored, and mostly herbivorous dinosaurs—but not all ankylosaurs were Ankylosaurus. — Amy Mckeever, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020 This dinosaur is the namesake of its suborder, which included both ankylosaurids and the more primitive nodosaurids. — Amy Mckeever, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020 One group of these animals, a suborder called Cyphophthalmi but more commonly known as mite harvestmen, falls a little short. — Emily Willingham, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020 Meanwhile, true ammonites are a suborder of ammonoids that didn’t appear until about 200 million years ago, in the Jurassic period. — Amy Mckeever, National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020 Conversely, possum refers to a suborder of tree-living marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi. — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020 See More

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