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Insectivora

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Word	Definition
order insectivoranoun	shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs

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Word	Definition
order insectivoranoun	shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs
carnivoraformes	—
abranchiatanoun	(obsolete, zoology) An order of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration, usually including Oligochaeta.
carnivoramorpha	("carnivoran-like forms") a clade of placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae, that includes the modern order Carnivora and its extinct stem-relatives.
dryopithecidnoun	(zoology) Any extinct hominid in the family Dryopithecidae, now considered to be the tribe Dryopitheciini or the subfamily Dryopithecinae.
homopteranoun	plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects
anthropopithecus	The terms (Blainville, 1839) and Pithecanthropus (Haeckel, 1868) obsolete taxa describing either chimpanzees or archaic humans.
afroinsectiphilia	The (African insectivores) a clade that has been proposed based on the results of recent molecular phylogenetic studies.
anomodontnoun	(zoology) Any therapsid of the suborder Anomodontia.
pantodonta	an extinct suborder (or, according to some, an order) of eutherian mammals.
aschelminthnoun	Any of many pseudocoelomates of the former phylum Aschelminthes.
machairodontinae	an extinct subfamily of carnivoran mammals of the family Felidae (true cats).
miacidae	("small points") a former paraphyletic family of extinct primitive placental mammals that lived in North America, Europe and Asia during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, about 65–33.9 million years ago.
notoungulata	an extinct order of ungulates that inhabited South America from the early Paleocene to the end of the Pleistocene, living from approximately 61 million to 11,000 years ago.
allotheria	(meaning "other beasts", from the Greek , –other and , –wild animal) an extinct clade of mammals known from the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic.
teleostomi	(from Greek τελεος, complete + Greek στόμα, mouth) an obsolete taxon of jawed vertebrates that supposedly includes the tetrapods, bony fish, and the wholly extinct acanthodian fish.
cooksonia	an extinct group of primitive land plants, treated as a genus, although probably not monophyletic.
microsthenenoun	(archaic, zoology, chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of mammals characteristically of small size, including various rodents (used in the 19th century by James Dana to classify animals, but not adopted thereafter)
quasispeciesnoun	(genetics) A group of similar nucleic acid molecules; a group of organisms (especially viruses) having such similar genomes.
haemorrhagianoun	(pathology) haemorrhage