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A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.

An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.

A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.

A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.

A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.

A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.

A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.

Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.

An under committee; a part or division of a committee. Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. Milton.

A subordinate, or inferior, division into parts; a subdivision. [R.] Many subdichatomies of petty schisms. Milton.

To divide the parts of (anything) into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.

A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.

One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoölogy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.

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.

me acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke.

A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.

A division of insects having slender or subulate antennæ. The dragon flies and May flies are examples.

A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.

A separation into parts; a division or severance. In sunder, into parts. "He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder." Ps. xlvi. 9.

Situated above the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.